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an hotel and practise the boat sailing now.
Senior marines' overgarments: used to live as best they can neither putting money by for retirement nor far possible sustenance.
Certain firms and Corporations, whose assistants are not even professional men, are paid generously and have moreover in many instances pensions with added superannuation.
We therefore earnestly pray that the Government will give immediate consideration to this petition and afford the relief to which we now more than ever will be entitled on due consideration of our statements.
We have the honour to be,
Your obedient Servants,
Signed by forty-three Officers of the Public Works Department
Signed by twenty-nine Officers of the Sanitary Department.
Signed by thirty-one Officers of the Medical Department.
(Including Staff of Nursing Sisters.)