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and report a copy of a letter ad_ dressed to you by Mr. J. W. ~ Jones, Assistant Master in Queen's College, applying for extension of the vacation leave recently granted to him.
I regret that I am
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unable to conour in the reasons advanced by M. Jones in support of his application. The circumstances referred under which he lost the bene
fit of a sterling payment~ whilst on full pay
to
leave in
the
reason
some
the month of February 1890 do not appear to constitute a
why such leave should not be counted against him, -although they might possibly furnish grounds for monetary compensation in -order to equalise his position with that of other officers - whose period of vacation~ leave is unbroken by inter- vals of half pay leave and usually precedes it. The circum
stances however were within
Mr