397
give
of my
time to
Government office that has regular office hours.
7
this increase in
my
Government duties has greatly
been reduced by the value of
The
concession of private practice which has never
been permitted by me to
interfere with
my
Government
I have
been compelled to limit
it
as much as
possible
to these portions of the law
in which
my principal
Government duties lie
and
owing
to this
and
but principally
to the want of time I have
available
for it, it has been
averaged £400
the last
years
whilst
my predecessor
D: Murray averaged
£4,000
a year
this fact
alone I submit shows how
greatly my
time has been encroached upon by my
Government duties.
Another
point
which
I desire to place strongly before His Excellency is the fact that I am not able
to obtain vacation leave
on full pay. This is a great hardship and greatly
reduces