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his
application for an
an increase
of salary. I am authorized in
that despatch
to
to offer Mr.
Bruse Shepherd such increase
to his present allowance for house rent as I might deem proper and adequate
I certainly agree with the Acting Attorney General
in
thinking that the allowance rent received by Mr. Bruce Shepherd is not sufficient to
for
a
secure suitable quarters for a married man with a family.
But
But there are others in the servicewho would consider that they
had equally good claims to an increase of their allowances, and who would certainly apply for
such increase
in the case
of
if it were sanctioned
for Mr. Bruce Shepherd. Mr. Bruce Shepherd
has solved the difficulty for the
present by stating that he would
rather not apply for
an increase of his rent allowance, as he hopes
of
before long to be able to put forward a much stronger claim
for