away
The
while. Mt Hh kit was
leave, & For that the
have been since receiving
Neting the half of
baroner
was drowsing
£300, and on my
return
ALANA V
paid and
the salary at the
same rate.
When I
found that
that I was
of
being
thus
paid,
I went to
the Colonial Secretary's Office
in case
it
might have been
oversight and
through and stated what I had been told as to the salary, and inquired if the Secretary of State's dispatch said any thing about it. I found that
it
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it did not, and the absence of anything either in the Blue Book, in the Estimates, or in Mr. Plunket's letter of appointment (copy of which I attach) to indicate that the increase to the salary
the
office was
personal only together with the fact that the Acting Officer drew half the increased salary, that the Secretary of State mentioned nothing about salary in his despatch to the Governor and that in the letter to me I was informed not what the salary was
to