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renders it impossible to maintain any kind of social position
the whole of my salary being required to provide the ordinary
necessaries of life any return of hospitalities extended being
quite out of the question.
b.-
That after meeting all my ordinary liabilities at
the end of each month, little or nothing remains over from
my salary to enable me to make provision against such possible
contingencies as Doctors' and Chemists' bills, forced short
trips from the Colony on account of ill-health of my family
or myself, extra prenia upon life assurance Policy for resi→
dence in a tropical climate, and other items too mumerous to
mention, leaving out altogether the question of making any
future provision for the education of children, Therefore u23 di
der these conditions one is either compelled to live in a
perpetual state of semi-bankruptcy, or else lead the life of
a recluse in some unhealthy part of the City where house rents
are cheap on account of the above reason, with nothing to
look forward to but a possible break-down of health owing
entirely to these cause.
Classification.
That the annually increasing work and responsibili–
ty of this office places my appointment at least on an equal
footing with similar appointments in the Home Service, putting
aside the consideration of enforced residence in a tropical
climate.
That it would seem that I have a strong claim to be
at least classed upon an equality with other professional
officers in the Service who are now drawing $400 month such as
the Assistant Director of Public Works and the Senior Executive
Engineer.
I feel confident that the information before Us
Excellency carmot but show the reasonableness of my application,
the