mendations to the Committee reasonable, except perhaps as regards the requisite staff for the Local Delivery Branch, on which subject I hope to address Your Lordship hereafter.
6.
In conclusion I would
state that desirous as
I am
of effecting retrenchment in every possible direction, I feel that I cannot in view of Mr. Travers' urgent representations conscientiously adhere to previous opinion so rigidly
my-
as
to
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to deprive deserving officers of well merited promotion and
more
especially seeing that- their duties have become
onerous and more
in
more
responsible
consequence of the retirement of two senior members of the - staff. I therefore venture to
submit Mr Travers' recommend-
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ation for Your Lordship's favourable consideration, and should the increases of salary
ed be
of salary recommend-
approved in this instance, I see no reason to anticipate