28
29
429
below 14 per cent and entitles this officer to receive his half pay and pension at 4/2. A memorial addressed on this to Your Lordship subject by Major-General Gordon is herewith transmitted.
An estimate of the value of Quarters occupied by various officials, which subject is alluded to in paragraph 9 of Your Lordship's despatch, has been made by the Surveyor General.
Cu closures 22 Novem sclosure!! thinted. so Jar as relates to the current year, and by Mr Bowdler, so as relates to 1875, as the latter is the only officer of the Public Works Department now in the Colony, who was likely to possess the knowledge necessary to compile it. The Table is appended.
The method of calculation adopted has been to take the salary of the holder of the office in 1875, add the then value of the quarters, on this take 35% or