the quarters intended for
your assistant and yourself
not being ready by the
time
of your
arrival in
will receive
the colony. You
respectively such lodging
allowance as
is
thought
fit by the local court
to be sufficient: the
amount cannot be fixed
in this country. The
question of
rank as the
head
of a department and important Depart-
ment, and, as such ap-
pointed, probably you
will be the next after the present Head
of Departments of similar standing to your own.
Your precedence must be
left to be determined
by the Governor,
but I
will recommend
to Her Majesty that you
be allowed to wear the
Civil Service Uniform of
the
class.
Your reports will be dealt with
precisely
the same manner as
the
reports of
other