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MR. W. W. WOODS' CLAIMS.
Correspondence between Mr. W. W. WOODS, the Treasury, and Secretaries of State for the Colonies, on the Subject of his Claims.
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No. 1.
(Extract.)
COLONIAL OFFICE to TREASURY.
July 21, 1870. "MR. HALKSWORTH has now retired, but it is only to give occasion to the abolition of the office to which Mr. Woods has been required to look as the recompense of his services.
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"Instead of this promotion, Mr. Woods will be still attached to the library in the position of assistant, a class whose salaries rise from 350/. to 6007. a year, the maximum salary of the assistant being the minimum of the old librarianship, the post to which Mr. Woods would in the natural course of things have succeeded, and to the duties of which he does in the main succeed.
"It appears to Lord Kimberley that under these very peculiar circumstances Mr. Woods might properly be allowed to receive at once the salary of 600l. to which, but for the recent alteration, he would have risen, of course without any further increase. "Lord Kimberley trusts that their Lordships will authorise this arrangement."
No. 2.
(Extract.)
SIB,
TREASURY to COLONIAL OFFICE.
Treasury Chambers, August 30, 1870.
THE Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, have had before them your letter of the 21st ultimo, submitting for their Lordships' consideration the case of Mr. Woods, the sub-librarian.
Their Lordships desire me to state for the information of the Earl of Kimberley, that they do not see sufficient reason for raising Mr. Woods' salary, which appears to them to be adequate to the duties which he discharges. My Lords cannot, at the end of 10 or 11 years after Mr. Woods' removal from the Treasury, enter into a discussion of what his position might now have been had he remained in this Department.
Sir Frederic Rogers, Bart.
I have, &c. (Signed) WILLIAM LAW.
No. 3.
SIB,
COLONIAL OFFICE to TREASURY.
Downing Street, July 10, 1871.
I AM directed by the Earl of Kimberley to state to you for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that he has again had under his consideration
your letter of the 30th August last, respecting the application of Mr. Woods, of this office, to be placed on a salary of 6001. per annum.
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