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of $3000 per annum, which had for many years appeared in Estimates for the Superintendent Crown Lands, should be retained, in order that a very deserving officer of 10 years service (Mr Gibbot) who had during that long period, though acknowledged to be a most efficient and hard working officer, received no increase of pay, might be promoted.
I recommended the promotion to salary of $2328 per annum of another most deserving officer, Mr. E. M. Pazland, whose knowledge of the Colony, of colloquial Chinese and of working with natives, fully compensates for the lack of early professional training in Europe. This officer now receives a salary of less than $120 per mensem, considerably less than European overseers working under his orders and who are, I like, men.
Feeling confident that his merited promotion would come Hageland in 1900, I have urged him to refuse offers of better pay or to seek work elsewhere.
b. The re-adjustment of salaries provides for transferring a class of Assistant Engineers, which I think he had some reason to expect would be done from the replies received by him to memorials on the subject, G.O.1898.
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