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Analytical work having to be done at one of the Pharmacies the Government
should be responsible for fees required. for such work. The Government would
only be put to extra expense in this
cace when vacation leave was
0
for the benefit of the Government Service that these Officers should be:
enabled to take their long leave once! in six years
that they may improve
their knowledge by personal inspection
required
of
the
or illness of the Officer doing double dutuj.
14.
your
I respectfully submit to Lordship that it is a humiliating position for a Government Officer to have to ask such favou
urs of
subordinater
or outsiders. In the one case of asking an officer to do double duty and the
outsider to do duty at ~
other to ask
au
an
half pay so small as I have represented.
None
are in a
a locum
of the Medical Officers
position to be able to pay for
tenens out of their own pocket.
That
the proposals I have made would not
entail a
heavy expence to the Government
out
and in view of present emergencies is the only way.
св difficulties. ay also submit to your Lordship that it is
for
many improvements and inven tions that are of yearly
in their professions a
occurrene
knowledge
to be obtained from books or periodicals. The Annual Report of the Medical
Department for 1893 will show how ~
heavy are the duties of every the Officers I have mentioned.
15. Speaking for myself
one of
I have been
Government Service twenty eight.
auc
tiventy
years
one of which I have
Ceme been in this Colony and the only
I have obtained has been seven months
I am
am not in a
position to ask favours
of subordinates or outaiders or to pay for services out of my own
pocket.
16.
In what I have stated above
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I have looked at this matter from
administrative point of view entirely.
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