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Sucules Robinson to a similar effect, to which he adds, should I desire to raise any questions it would be better to do so while at home &c. I thick it desirable to place before you the following whatement at this period, rather that defie a subject that causes me considerable auxiety, from the tore of the latter pact of the Despatch No 126.
When I accepted the appointment it was under the impression that I shnied be permitted to make some additions to my income as a consulting Engineer to and I further inferred from some remarks that fill from the Decoules Robinson when speathing of other professional appointments, that I was correct in my views; since then Sio Secules Robinson and
myself. have had some correspondence on the subject and it appears that, on that pocet I had mis.
- understood
misunderstood him.
As some
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proof of my convictions, when engaged- in business pursuits- previous to the embodiment of the Milities in 1854, my income was about £5000 per avce, and I shoreld scarcely have consecited to au ar. =rangement attended with so
disadvantages, which limited professional income to £1400 in such au
expensive country as China.
I observe the comparation references to the Salaries affices in the Colony, but which I most respectfully subrust have little to do with such an exceptional case as mine. Theirs are
per. -manent appointments, not
experimental and possibly tem. - porary as in my case.
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other
The duties of my appoint = ment- differ widely from all others, even from,
those
of my I have not only
successor.
to
- organise and get into worthing large establishment.
order a
in which most delicate and
difficult