Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1918 — Salaries Are Increased. [ARTICLE]

Salaries Are Increased.

Owing to the great advance in the cost of living, the local government has increased the salaries of all its employees who were paid under 1,800 escudos ($1,945) per annum. The increases in some cases amounted, to 45 per cent, writes Coiisul John F. Jewell, Lourenco Marques, Portuguese East Africa. The resultant excess of expenditure over the budget estimate for salaries is in round figures $313,200. As the budget could not bear any additional expenditure without a deficit that would embarrass at present and in future hinder the development and the progress of the province of Mozambique, to meet this new expense item the government has increased the fees for licenses for bars, canteens, kiosks, etc., the telegraph and telephone rates, and the export tax on sugar and has established a “military” tax. Increased revenue is expected from these measures as follows: Export tax on sugar, $216,000; telegraph and telephone rates, $27,000; other taxes and fees, $46,600.