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and they proved so satisfactory that upon my report the Sanitary Board recommended the establishment of a permanent Vaccine Institute with myself as Superintendent under the supervision of the Colonial Surgeon, Head of the Medical Department.
After due consideration the Government adopted their recommendation and in March 1892 the Institute was opened and I was appointed Superintendent by His Excellency Sir W. Robinson, but when thanking him for the appointment and enquiring what remuneration would be attached to the office owing to the additional duties imposed upon me I was told that "His Excellency was of opinion that the duties of the Superintendent of the Vaccine Institute are such as the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon may properly be required to perform without extra remuneration, and that the contention that any addition to the duties of a Government servant should carry with it an increase of pay is inadmissible" and "that the list of duties specified in the memorandum forwarded with Mr. Ladds' application (see attached copy) was drawn up for guidance as to the qualifications required in the candidate that might be selected to fill the post and that there was no intention of laying down that no other duties would ever be required of him."
I am not of course aware what the above-mentioned list of duties which was handed to me upon my appointment in 1887 as Inspector of Live Stock and Markets was intended to imply, but I certainly signed the agreement on the distinct understanding that I should be expected to perform the duties enumerated therein and those only.
Further, I beg to point out that in the list of
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