be paid to Dr S.A.R. Laing, whose appoint-
ment was notified to you in my despatch
No 557 of the 18th of October last. Dr Laing was appointed on a salary of
£450 rising by triennial increments of
£35 to £620 a year with a house allowance
of £70 a year but for the sake of
uniformity it is desirable that he should
as soon as possible be placed on the same
scale as Dr Davies and the Port Health
Officer now to be appointed. It will not
be possible to effect this for some years
without inflicting pecuniary loss on Dr
Laing but ... the change can conveniently be made at the
beginning of his tenth year of service.
Reckoning the house allowance at £70,
he will then be entitled to receive
£590 a year including both salary and allowance,
whereas if he had been appointed on the
terms now decided upon he would have been
entitled to receive £600 a year.
He should therefore be paid during
his first nine years service at the rates
given in my despatch No 367 of the 18th
of Oct: last receiving a house allowance
of £70 a year, and from the beginning
of the tenth year at the rate of £600
a year rising by triennial increments of
£40 to £720 a year, the house allowance being discontinued.
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