A proper salary for the performance of the above duties is quite correct; but Mr Mitchell performed in addition the duties of Emigration Officer, drawing, at first, the help of the salary attached to the office only, but subsequently receiving the arrears of the other half in accordance with the terms of your letter No. 381 of 27th May 1886, extracts from which are herein enclosed to facilitate reference.
3rdly "Stores supplied through the Agency of Messrs Barber and Co": The Surveyor General informs that he was not aware until very lately of the mode in which requisitions on England were made and stores supplied through the Agent General - he was instructed to procure certain articles for Government House which could not be obtained in the Colony; he says that the only means of purchasing them that he knew of was through the mediation of an ordinary Agent in London.
4thly With respect to the abatement of five months' rent from Mr Dusdell £212.4 amounting to £212.10.0. You state that the explanations will be furnished from your own offices.
5thly Regarding the Statement with respect to non-payment of superannuation Contribution by certain officers, -