double duties of Treasurer as now
combined with
those of Registrar General.-
7. The enlarged explanations, however, will enable Her Majesty's government to decide for itself how far it is desirable that further security be required from Mr. Smith for any Acting Treasurer. I, however, observe that I find it often very difficult to provide for the discharge of the duties of officers arriving
on leave a difficulty greatly augmented
by their receiving Vacation leave
six months'
annually
in this
Colony, and being permitted largely to hoard up that leave so as
to use
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full pay,
added to a long half pay absence, e.g. Europe. Now Mr Austen Wald will, by your Lordships' permission, soon have four months' Vacation leave and twelve months' half pay leave. Now if, in addition to the difficulty of
finding suitable persons to fill
important
gratuitously and hard worked
offices during so many months, there be added the difficulty
will
of giving security, Your Lordship perhaps admit that there are grave
reasons
for insisting on the utmost to the extent absolutely essential. 8. I trust your Lordship will excuse my offering the above suggestion