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the decision conveyed in your predecessor's despatch N.58 of the 15th of November last, as to the application of the Circular Despatch of the 27th of June 1885 to the vacation leave of the Masters of the Central School, who were appointed prior to that date.
It will be seen that M. Bateson Wright does not ask that the Officers of the Educational Department should have two months' vacation leave every year, in addition to the School vacation. But he urges that this vacation leave, which makes a difference of half-pay for two months = one month's full pay - should be granted only after six years' service, to enable Assistant Masters to go to Europe, without this indulgence it is doubtful whether they will be able to afford to take leave.
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It must be remembered that the pay of the