PERSONAL & CONFIDENTIAL
F.C. Duff, Esq.
Bearing
The funds for (b) and (e) are certain to be inadequate, which aggravates the pressure on the other votes. Wages consume $5482 of (c) and $2210 of (d) which leaves $1028 for the maintenance of the house and $220 for the grounds. in mind that we have to pay for every service performed e.g. repairing the antediluvian refrigerator or buying fertiliser, this provision is ludicrous. What happens of course is that I have to pay for everything out of my own pocket, the amount in the vote being barely enough for cleaning materials and tools.
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This is not however a complaint about money, believe it or not. What I do resent is the embarrassing position I am put in daily. One goes cap in hand to seek free favours from reluctant departments. One puts up with shabbiness if it is not too public. One keeps a close eye on the toilet paper. All that kind of thing.
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a coat
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It would take very little to make life bearable, about five hundred pounds a year would ease things wonder- fully. It is not available locally and I would not want it from a provena ce which can say to me (and I quote) of varnish on a chair deprives a school child of milk. There may be a hallowed principle lurking here but truly it does make my job more difficult to have to scratch for pennies to maintain government property and it is a perennial political irritant.
As they also spoke with some heat on this, I am sending copies of this letter to Tom Russell, Arthur Watson and Walter Wallace.
cc:
As
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(G.WYN JONES)
Governor.
Sir Bruce Greatbatch,
KCVO, CMG, MBE,
P.S. Clearly a
Devdiv, Barbados.
(Mont) serrated Lypewrite
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H.E. Mr. Tom Russell, C.B.F.'
Cayman Islands.
H.E. Mr. Arthur Watson, C...G.
Turks & Caicos Is.
H.E. Mr. Walter Wallace, C.B.E., D.S0.
B.V.I.
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