drainage question in Mugtong Tringkong
I am not prepared to refuse
to sanction the offer of the
bat
Officers in question, I have
barely to remind
you
that
in the last para. of your
Despatch No. 352 of the year last you expressed the
hope that the recruitment of
the Staff of the Sanitary Board
which you
would be sufficient for
the recommended
present needs, & I confess that
I regard the present piece-meal
system of increasing the
Sanitary Staff
unsatisfactory.
therefore...
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most
3 while not withholding my
A
sanction of the offer of the
three Drain Inspectors on
the terms specified in the
papers of particulars which
you enclose, I have to request
you will inform me
why it has been found
necessary
to substitute
the considerably higher rates
of pay
now recommended for,
the rate of $600 a year.