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If finally selected for appointment, you will be provided with a free passage to the Colony, (2nd class by mail steamer) on your signing the usual agreement with the Crown Agents for the Colonies, Whitehall Gardens, S.W., by which you will be bound to repay to the Colonial Government the cost of your passage in the event of your relinquishing the appointment within three years of the date of your arrival in the Colony for any other reason than mental or physical infirmity.
7. You will be entitled to half salary from the date of your embarkation from this country, and to full salary from the date of your arrival in the Colony.
8. It is desired that this vacancy should be filled early in September and therefore if you accept the appointment you will be required to leave England at an early date. I am to enquire what is the earliest date at which you can be ready to sail.
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... I request you to be so good as to inform me at an early date whether you desire to accept the appointment.