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an
increase
of pay
5. During the past four months
I have found that, taking into consideration
the cost of living in this capital, I am
worse off than I did in
now receiving pay England. Moreover the salary attached to this office is obviously not commensurate with the Statutory training an
officer must go through in England in order to obtain the necessary qualification. This will be evident on comparing my pay with those who have not received any special training for
the posts they now occupy in the service I would remind His Excellency that I
am a member of the Pharmaceutical Society
of Great Britain, that I have been
engaged in the practice
of Pharmacy for upwards of thirteen years.
6. I am alive to the fact that
having entered into an agreement to serve
3 years, there would under ordinary circumstances be reasonable objections to entertaining an application of this kind :
nevertheless having regard to the foregoing considerations, to the fact that I shall
only be in receipt of $88 per month on the expiration of this period, I am left no alternative but to ask for the matter to be
brought to the notice of His Excellency now.
True copy.
I have, &c.,
(sd.) J. W. Lucas
Asst. Apothecary.
(sd.) H. E. M. ?
17 Novr., 1890.