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resigned his duties as Police Magistrate, for which
he continues to draw a salary of $1,200 per annum,
and when, on the 19th December 1900, Mr. Hallifax was
appointed Assistant Superintendent of Police, he was
allowed a salary of $2,700 for the discharge of his
Police duties. The total yearly salary of Mr. Hallifax
at the present time is therefore $3,900.
This salary does not involve any increase in the
estimates for the current year, which
have already received your approval.
5.
Mr. Hallifax lives in what for several months of the year is a very bad climate.
He has much travelling to do in a very rough
country and he has to spend many nights at the various
Police Stations as he cannot return to Taipo within
the day. A man less physically strong could not do
the work, and I am therefore of opinion that the pay
of Mr. Hallifax should not be reduced and that he
should be permitted to draw the first of his triennial
increments of salary with effect from the 29th or last