despatch praises his work during the

but hardly gives the sort

last

Year,

that

detailed report 167333 called for.

deep t

I think we should ask for a fuller

reply to desp.

report in

But in

any

case

reason, in present conditions,

finance, especially, to entertain the

I can see

16733/93

no sufficient of the

the Treasurer's

valour?

S.W. J. 9 Nov.

question of raising

that

I do not see any further report is wanted on M. Mitchell Innes This

report is satisfactory

& So much might be said. The salary cannot at present be increased The retrenchment committee did not propose

to increase it. Nor did they propose the Assistant Colonial Secretary

I think I made types supine at receiving

this recommendation to increasing the salary

of an office where carelessness can be so serious a loss

of him following

a short time ago.

Willie Ramsden appear & act in three

to

Mullin

in no principle at all

here West of

ma.

officers of Colonial

They proposed, if the officers of

Secretary & Registrar General

are combined,

an Assistant Colonial Secretary

$600 to $800 dollars, the pay,

the Treasurer being in continuation but the Governor proposes to pay the Assistant Colonial Secretary $3600 to $6000 dollars.

? Decline to increase the salary, While expressing pleasure at the satisfactory nature of the report CPL 10mm

= ?

To proceed. Let me

draft

A.24n

10.11.54

I ventured that the recent despatch proposing

increase all around to the civil service

clearly showed that the Receiver altogether failed

appreciate the financial state

of the Colony.

Minute as above

lux add that Sir J. Bowring in England thinks of the improvement of the Run 257

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