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conditions now proposed. One obvious advantage of the change recommended would be that, when, in the course of time Mr Lister is removed to a better place, it will be easy for the Government to procure a fit person for the important office of Treasurer; which is impossible while the £200 salary is only for a year.
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I earnestly trust that, in the interests of the Queen's service, no further objection will be made to the admission of the Treasurer, under the altered conditions of his office, to the Executive Council.
If I could possibly have foreseen that there would be any objection in any quarter to the admission of the Treasurer, I should have put forward the claims of his office rather than those of the Surveyor-General and of the Registrar-General. For the last-mentioned Officers give advice and information respecting their own Departments only; whereas it is evident that here, as elsewhere, the Officer at the head of the Finance Department
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