A
decision on
the applications for promotion submitted in my despatch W: 134 of 6th May 20
me
that
last and informing the Acting Police Magistrate is to draw one half of $500 a
month and one
half of the
mr
salary of his actual appoint. ment from the date of Mr. Wodehouse's retirement.
2
In connection with the half-pay of the Police Ma- gistrate, I would point out that Commander Hastings, R. N., has drawn half of the
salary
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}
1480.
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salary voted in the Estimates in respect of the office of Magistrate and Coroner since
it became available; that this was in accordance with the
regulations and with prese-
dent; that
your
decision as
to whether Mr Wodehouse
oned or not
would be pensioned
your
des
tyre was conveyed in
patch No 190 of 28th July which
was received here on the 1st September; and that it would be hard on the acting Magis. trate to ask him now to re-
fund