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pence.
This salary has never
been altered, and while that
of many
other kindred departments
the Police (arbour
such as
Master, Regestras bensal Registrar of the Supreme Court
re: have been largely increased;
the salary of the Magistrates
unchanged.
remains
Another part of my
salary is derived from the Fire Brigade. For this I
receive eighty dollars
a
month.
The salary was fixed in sterling
at a time when there were
five fires
a
year.
w
Last
the course
Year
of
there were
>)
205
year
thirty five, and this up to date there have.
been thirtyeight.
By the terms of
my appointment, I am compelled to live throughout the
year
in the City of Victoria. I
am
therely precluded from
living up the hill during
the
Summer
months
a.
consideration of great importance
"to a
am
married
man
also limited in
and
my
choice of residences down below,
and this although I receive
quarters
not
house allowance:
the work of extingiushing
fores is not only attended
with
thirty