has also the reduction of the
Salary of
A
year.
One
Successor to £1500
This £300 would be
saved under this item, and
£900 by the amalgamation of the Offices of Treasurer and Secretary;
in
all £1200.
I would then submit
first that, after the year 1851,
when I shall have served ten
Years
8 months
in the Civil
Establishment of this Colony, I
should receive the
sum
of
£4,000, which would equal nearly 21 years Salary, and a
remission of the purchase grant of land
to the extent
of
a
Civil servant
in New Zealand; that to this
should be added
a
remission
or
Similar
the grant of land
I
to which officers of the Armies
retiring with the rank
of major,
are entitled; and that, on
my
retirement
from the Civil
Service, the immediate sale
of my Majority should be
Secured to
me.
The
grant of land would be but of small
importance to Mr. Government, and the only obstacle at present existing to the sale of my Majority is the fact of my continuing in the Civil Service, and therefore not drawing Half Pay. It is necessary to remark that at the end of December 1851, I shall have subscribed £730 to the Superannuation Fund. By this
arrangement the Colonial Estimates would be at
once relieved £1200
a year.