I have been fortunate in obtaining and retaining the services of his abilities for so long a period and I regret that his salary is too small as I consider him entitled to much consideration and from his long service deserving of remuneration at a higher rate, especially as at the present time every article of consumption and house rent is at an extravagantly high price.
Extract from Surveyor General's Letter No.4984/18th September, 1859.
"Mr Power, Accountant and Clerk of Registry, has been employed in this Office a period of 14 years, he has been without exception one of the most zealous and conscientious Officers of the Department; I have in the whole course of that period never had cause to censure him in the remotest degree, but the reverse, it has been a pleasure to myself and it must have been a satisfaction to him to know how favourably