Increase $149,840:—The main items contributing to this increase are as follows:—
Pay and Allowances (Increase $145,960).—Of this sum $107,720 is due to provision for high cost of living and rice allowances on the basis recently authorised. Two other contributing factors are the inclusion in this section of the Compradore's Collecting Allowance of $19,800 and an increase of $12,452 in the provi. sion for charges relating to Special Services of Police Constables.
The Compradore's Collecting Allow ance was originally based on the Tael/Dollar difference in exchange and all deportments automatically bore their proportion as expenditure was incurred. Upon the abolition of the Tbel the allowance was consolidated as a General Charge but it is now considered more appropriate io show the. full cost of the Compradore's Office. Provision for the allowance has therefore been included in this section for the first time.
These appropriations also cover normal pay increments in accordance with the Grading Scales and provide for the engagement of three additional shroffs.
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