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"the ordinary age for retirement, viz:and to the cost paragraph regard Bab not find in Regulations the w the ago any of the Colonial age of 55 laid down age for retirement not has that veen the ordinary my experience. that my etan one for schrevent am therefore led to conclude whrament is considered devirabic for the purpose of re.. - organizing the Medical Departurent. I was desirous of completing my 25 years service as I pointed out in an interview appointed by the Secretary of State with one of his Private secretaries. The result of which was the receipt of the letter 1: 2589/90 dated 18th February ultimo in which I am granted a further year's service, conditionally on my accepting the Secretary of State's terms.
L ane the expiration of that year's service and the two months' privilege leave to which I am entitled I shall have served the Colony twenty-years and one-three-twenty-five months' actual service, wanting but sixteen months to complete twenty-five years.
My retirement being my ut being considered pecawary in the interest of the Colony, my i ees being exceptional in that I completed nearly 22 years continuous service, it not being possible for me to comply with the Colonial Office Regulations regarding leave, owing to the difficulty of finding a substitute to do my duty while on long leave, and having from the same cause to abandon my privilege leave during that time, and over three years half-pay leave being due to me. Also in consideration of the exceptional hard work of over several years of my service, not counting that during the Plague and epidemics of smallpox, I humbly petition that I may be considered favourably.