Since my appointment to the present post in 1861, I have drawn a certain pay, but by a letter recently received from the Paymaster General, copy enclosed, I am now called upon to forego it.
The Memorial fully explains the circumstances under which I have hitherto drawn the pay in question. I desire to bring to the notice of His Excellency the heavy loss to which the Paymaster General's letter of 9 March 1912 subjects me, with the hope that His Excellency will be able to represent to the Home Government that a reduction of £164 a year in a Colony where the nature of the climate precludes an Officer from keeping his Children, thus necessitating the expense of having two establishments, one in England and one here, is one of a grave and serious nature and calculated to place me in pecuniary difficulties.
The expenses of rent and living in this Colony are great, and but for the receipt of my Naval Pay, I should have been unable to support myself in it, having...