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correspondence between Mr. J.M. Butler, of the Public Works Department ' in this Colony, and the Colonial Office.
In reply thereto I beg to state that Mr Butler is one of the Overseers mentioned in the 8th paragraph of Sir G.
once increased to the limit of $1200 per annum, which sum would ultimately have been reached had the annual incremental system been continued.
Provision to this effect was accordingly made in the Estimates for the current year, and these have been approved by Your Lordship in so far as Mr Butler is concerned, but
William Des Vœux's despatch No. 381 of the 24th December, 1889, whose salaries, it was proposed by the Surveyor General, should be increased at once to $1600
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