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of which I enclose, stating-
that he has received a most
tempting offer to leave the Public Service; and as happened to know the nature
of it and felt 1 justice to his
sure that in
he
family could not avoid accepting it, unless Government were prepared to hold out some
immediate inducement to him to remain the service, I assented to
an addition.
Enclosure 13th March
1889
of Six hundred dollars per $600.
annum
per
annum to his salary,
420
ad
personal allowance, without reference to Your Lordship, -
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rather than lose so valuable.
an
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officer.
Mr. Bruce Shephert
has conducted his duties at
the Land Office with the -
greatest efficiency, and I. have the authority of Chief Justice Russell
for saying
that
it would have been - most difficult, if not impossible, to have found a satisfactory
substitute
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