1
months' vacation leave and
three months' half pay
to enable him to
go
leave
to
England on urgent private affairs the nature of which
he
explained to me.
One of the reasons
for his going home was the non settlement of the question of his Military Pension, which has been withheld, although he informs
me that he is
he
entitled, under regulations, to draw it, unless the emoluments
of
0 €
of his Civil appointment.
77
amount to three times the
sum
3.
fixed for his
his pension.
I
fear that unless
this question is settled
satisfactorily Major-General Gordon will not return to the Colony. It would, in
my
opinion, be a decided loss to the Service should he take
this step,
as he has
always
given great satisfaction in the performance of any duties
with which he has been
entrusted