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we must
529
informing
Le
y
the
retirement from the service
group
the 12th instant of
Mr Gerrard, late First Clerk
in the office of the Registrar General of marriages, and
an old and meritorious
Public servant.
2.
I enclose
a Memorandum from the Colonial Secretary and
Auditor General, showing
the pensions to
which Mr Gerrard is entitled according to the Regulations. It seems
a small
sum for
such long and faithful
services.
3. The
arrangements
to be made in the Registrar
General's office in consequence
of the retirement of Mr Gerrard,
are of primary importance.
In this Colony, for it will
be remembered
that the
Registrar General is ex-officio
the Protector of the Chinese,
and that the communications
between
the Government with the
overwhelming Chinese
population