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the better course would have been for
the Treasurer to assign him a reasonable amount of additional work and give
him the chance of doing it if he could;
if he had failed to perform it, he
might then have reasonably been called
on to retire.
I observe that in his
memorandum of 20th March, defending
the course which he had recommended,
Mr. Mitchell-Innes failed, no doubt
through inadvertence, to quote Mr.
Freire's minute correctly, but interpolated the word "entire" before "energies",
thus altering and extending its sense.
Under all the circumstances
3.
of the case I think it will be fair to
award to Mr. Freire the same rate of
pension, which would have been grantable had he been allowed to remain in
the service until he was 60 years old,
the age at which an officer may be
compulsorily retired; i.e. to allow him
an addition of 3 years to his pensionable service which amounted to 13 complete years. I ate therefore to
tion the grant to him of a pension
sanc-
of