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application for promotion made 17th March last, to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the reply I received thereto.
"ontemplation." "Assistant ... of confidence, "that it is in con to abolish the appointment of "Harbour Master," in which event, employ- ment would be found for you
34 "in some " "other Colony," it seems clear now that
3. With reference to the reply, the probability of which it is stated that no promise could be made of transferring at an early date taken in connection with information which His Excellency, the Governor was good enough to have communicated to me semi-officially by the Honourable the Colonial Secretary, five years ago, (August 2nd 1892), and reference to which at this date, I trust, will not be considered a breach of any ...
that a transfer is so vague, and the possibility of promotion locally so remote, that I am forced to the conclusion that there is no hope of any permanent improvement of my position.
4. I am now drawing less pay than I did five years ago. From February 1891, until April last, I have held acting appointments in addition to, or in substitution of, my substantive appointment, which in some measure relieved me.
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