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rooms not required for-
fait of rea
Public Offices,
Offices, so long
as it is understood
that when otherwise wanted he is to
surrender them at once.
9.
I cannot therefore regard it as very generous treatment of a zealous and
valuable Public Servant to double his rent
for occupying
rooms not
not immediately
required, and which
are kept in better
repair by such occupation than if left
untenanted.
10.
It may be said that on the transfer of the Imperial Post Office to the Colony Mr
Mitchell received an
increase
of Salary from
£600 to 800, but it surely is not to be supposed that the increase of salary given for increased duty and responsibility
is
reason for doubling the rent of his Quarters- occupation of which at all is only
the
exception to a general
justifiable Rule, called for by
considerations of Public Expediency quite irrespective of the Salary
of the Postmaster- whether the latter be
diminished or increased.
11.
I therefore feel that Mr Mitchell has a right to complain of being hardly dealt with, and though perhaps, if his
residence at the Post Office be insisted on,
it is
contrary
to the
rule
for enforcing such residence to make him pay anything
for obeying an order, nevertheless as it
may be
seem advisable to travel so far
as to
1800 to undo
an
arrangement
then arrived at, I would suggest that