liable to be called up at any hour, day or night, receives $5,640 besides quarters and gas, which may be estimated at about $900 to $1,000:
8. In conclusion, I am happy to state that Dr Ayres is a most painstaking and hard-working official, ready at any time to undertake duties without grumbling. The subordinate members of the public service who are entitled with their families to free medical attendance at his hands, bore testimony spontaneously on the occasion of his going on leave in June last to his kind and sympathetic treatment of them. I had the honour of reporting this on the 11th of June last (Despatch No. 2195). It would appear that one who would readily respond to calls for his services as Dr Ayres appears to have done from the address presented to him,
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