His salary is to be raised by yearly increments of $96 (£20) until it has reached $1920, or £400 in -- 1984. Therefore on and after 1884 Mr Macfurlam's emoluments, (salary, free quarters, fuel and lighting being taken into consideration), will amount to $2400 or £500 a year. His transfer to the Sanitary Department would consequently benefit him to the extent of $240 or £50 a year, but it is scarcely necessary to point out that the character of his new duties entailing so much harder work, and such constant exposure to a tropical sun, and to unhealthy influences, more than fully warrants such an increase.
7. We should mention that it will be indispensably necessary to provide the new sanitary inspector with a chair allowance of $24 a month, as his duties will be mainly of a perambulatory nature.
8. The Colonial Surgeon will do himself the honour of addressing you separately as to the filling up of Mr Macfurlam's post as apothecary at the Government Civil Hospital.
We have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servants,
(12) JM Price
Surveyor General
Ph. B. C. Ayres,
Colonial Surgeon
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