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yours duration for
illness for almost two years
which I am only
It is
how
for
recovering.
is not very clear to me
Rule 1344 in the Colonial
Regulations justifies the addition
of four
months
vacation as
leave to the full half pay period grantable under No 120. It may be read as only permitting leave for
the latter, but nevertheless
attaching the pay of vacation leave, so far
claimable, to the
1/2 pay
earlier part of that leave
In
Mr Austin's case, however, Your Lordship, whether having 134
in remembrance or not, seemed
wholly
on one point
to have decided that four months' vacation leave could be
without dispute
granted on
full pay
and the utmost
half pay leave grantable
In this case
all vacation
grantable could be and might be combined; and
have been granted in the case of an officer who
though an old Public Servant has
only three years resident
service in this Colony.
might be added
but only for
So far however,
as
my
argument is concerned, there would still be a temptation to uphold vacation leave though lessened, if
two years not to be used as an
addition to
the length of leave grantable - point which the language of 1344 seems to leave doubtful.
I am really very sorry
to
find myself in the position of