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which I have already addressed Your Lordship, were taken into consideration.
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was loath to appoint Mr. Smith as he had already the full duties of Assistant Registrar General to perform. But I found that no other arrangement was possible, and rather than deprive Mr Travers of assistance as there are particularly few European clerks in the department, I have allowed Mr. Smith to do the work of the Assistant Postmaster General, as a temporary arrangement.
Mr Smith has applied for the half pay of the Assistant Postmaster General in addition to the half pay of the Assistant Registrar General and the half pay of his substantive appointment, - that of Passed Cadet.
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