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plication for salary.
an increase
of~
-salary
The maximum attached to Dr Lowson's appoint_ ment is $3,000 a year; to which must be added the value of his quarters and a yearly al- lowance of #360 as Assistant Medical officer of the Govern- ment Lunatic Asylum.
Upon attaining the~
maximum in November next;
naximum in
D. Lowson will be in receipt of a salary of $280 a month in
addition
9075
addition to quarters as against
$300 a month and an allowance
of #60 for quarters to be drawn by the newly appointed Assist.")" -ant Surgeon, Dr. Clark, (S. of S. despatch W. 137 of 1895).
It would, I consider, be anomalous that a junior officer
should be on a
higher rate of
pay than his senior in the~. same department, and in view
of this
: this
anomaly and of the excellent services rendered by Dr Lowson during the plague opi-
demie