"Treation Leave and the half day
Limited, to visit Europe. –
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to be
I
and a
That system, his Secretary
system,
has grown up
in his
opinion
a very serious Public inconvenience
grave impediment to the administration of the Government,-
more especially because here instead of
an annual Vacation Leave
Consisting of six weeks only - as in other Colonies, it consists of two
months
that, when
Coordinating
both was intended but a liberal nearly nine weeks; to hold
Officer is allowed-
contrary to the spirit and original
hand must
object of Vacation Leave. To commence with four months' treation Leave-
The Governor
finds himself under
Air Calendar Month:
hardly because
the vacation have
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made arrangingent by
a the lord being able
& hourding profusely
for the duties
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obligation to fill the vacant office
some
one
willing to discharge
its perhaps arduous duties for nothing during your four months,
five weeks longer than in any other Colony, whilst he has also
to find
-
some suitable person willing
to officiate gratuitously for the latter Acting Officer, during that same
protracted period.
"It is obvious, this Executivency
remarks, that such a systeme must often preclude the Governor from obtaining the best man for the duty to be done, and it is therefore a direct injury
to the Public Service.