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departments without additional remuneration, unless specially engaged on those terms, and that there is no precedent for the adoption of such a course in the Civil Service of the Colony.
I further submit that the work connected with the Vaccine Institute is a speciality, and one that not one in a hundred who might be selected for the post of Inspector of Live Stock and Markets or Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, unless this qualification was specially named, would know anything about as the cultivation of vaccine lymph is not included in the curriculum of Inspectorships of Markets or Colonial Veterinary Surgery. It was more by chance that when the Institute was established the Government had an officer on the spot who was qualified to undertake the duties and successfully establish the cultivation of vaccine lymph locally, which Medical Practitioners and Veterinary Surgeons had previously failed to do.
I therefore respectfully request that the question as to the cultivation of vaccine lymph being a speciality or not may be referred to the Medical Officers of the Local Government Board, and that in the event of their affirmative decision, that a salary of at least six hundred dollars per annum may be attached to the office of Superintendent of the Government Vaccine Institute, with which addition my salary would then only amount to a little more than £440 per annum after a period of over eight years' service.
Sir,
I feel confident that the information before you cannot but show the reasonableness of my
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