by the Audit Clerk, and when I went to the Colonial Office I altogether forgot to refer to the
matter and did come away
without having set the question right. I knew that the circumstances of Mr. Plunket's appointments had been the opportunity for
the increase of Coroner's salary but I never
understood that it was such
special personal consideration as to be limited by the term of his tenure of office, what I thought was that
the Colonial Office without very specially looking into the matter had overlooked the fact that
the salary of the office had been lately increased, and so stated it at the amount at which it formally stood. I thought the salary of the office
was permanently raised. It appears also to have been
the impression of the local Government. Nothing has
ever been done to show that the extra £36 was a
personal allowance to Mr. Plunket. The salary has appeared in the estimates as £200 equivalent in dollars, and