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ber, 1889, Mr.Mudie was appointed provisionally a Resident En- gineer in the Public Works Dept. on a salary of $3,300 per an-
num, and as such commenced to establish a claim to a retiring
allowance and other privileges of the service, he seems to have been without much consideration put hack on a temporary agree-
ment.
5. In April, 1893, Mr.Mudie was granted four
months' full-pay leave and two months' half-pay leave to Eng- land as if he had been on the establishment C.S.0.2572/92.
6. In 1895,C.5.0.2526/95,Mr.Mudie's engagement
on the Praya Works was renewed for a further period of three years, which expires on the 30th.instant.
7. At the end of 9 years' service, Mr.Mudie's salary remains the same as when he was first appointed, and through his being transferred for special reasons, on account of his aptitude for the duty, to the Praya Reclamation Works and paid from a special fund and not on the establishment, his claim for pension and other privilege of the service is, to say the least,doubtful.
8. I have found Mr.Mudie an active, energetic, and in every respect capable assistant, and would he glad to see his name added to the staff of the Department as an Exe- cutive Engineer. There is, I should think, little doubt that on the completion of the present reclamation, in about two years' time, further work of reclamation from Arsenal Street to East Point must be undertaken to provide for the expansion of the
city