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conveyance allowance, the reasonableness for which
I submit appears in the enclosed copy of my application,
but which I regret to say was not granted.
6. I regret having to introduce such personal matter as paragraphs 4 and 5 into this application but not being of the Cadet class who have, I understand, preference over other offices, I cannot hope for further promotion in the Colony and I do, therefore, respectfully submit that nine to ten hours a day work without holidays
or Sunday is work meriting substantial salary.
It is work such as no other officer in the Colony does
or has ever been required to do, and moreover, I have
been responsible for the evolution of the whole now
fairly reconstituted Department from the washing out
of the office on a Sunday off, to the text of the Postal Convention with China for partial union; every detail
has been carried out under my personal supervision.
7. The work of the office has increased enormously: Penny Postage, New Japanese lines to America, Australia and Europe, and more frequent German mails to Europe, have all added very largely to the labours of an office of the gravest importance to a commercial Colony, and
the