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T 15, Carpenter (3, 276) 
16. Gardeners at various rates (3,3000) 
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17. Coolies.at various rates ( 5.16000} 
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24. Stores and Tools (S.10654) 
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this power passe© from the Committee, even within the items 
3. At the present time the hill for the addi¬ 
tion to the mens 1 MM rice allowance has been before him: the 
matter of meeting the increase of wages, as resolved, put 
before you (file Gardens 6287y^C9) The two have a different 
aspect for the paying of the addition to rice allowance but 
brings the expenditure of six months to a little over the 
average (labour having at our rates been in difieit) whereas 
an increase of wages from 1st. July without a reduction of the 
force will cause the two votes to be overrun by $900. The 
Committee through me therefore taken the very first opportunity 
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of asking for an extension of their vote ,in order that they my 
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■ know, should you refuse it, that tht*y have to cut down the forc« 
Though they naturally hopw that you will grant the extension, 
they are preparing the altrenative, 
4. As to the need of increasing the pay of the 
m^n there can be no two views; and only if you nek for the one 
view need I, 1 think, enlarge oti it. 
5. Whet T would beg of ywi is to state if the 
Committee has power to fix wages and if possible to give 'the 
Colonial Treasurer y-our authority to pay generally unon the 
decision of the Gardens’ Committees both here and in Penang 
including also here the Government House Corrnni-ttee. 
6. . For your satisfaction the votes affected 
they may be detailed. They have been thus:* 
Gardeners at various 1 rates $3000 
Wages including rice allowance for Jamary $205.84 
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