CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12] — Page 158

has also the reduction of the

Salary of

A

year.

One

Successor to £1500

This £300 would be

saved under this item, and

£900 by the amalgamation of the Offices of Treasurer and Secretary;

in

all £1200.

I would then submit

first that, after the year 1851,

when I shall have served ten

Years

8 months

in the Civil

Establishment of this Colony, I

should receive the

sum

of

£4,000, which would equal nearly 21 years Salary, and a

remission of the purchase grant of land

to the extent

of

a

Civil servant

in New Zealand; that to this

should be added

a

remission

or

Similar

the grant of land

I

to which officers of the Armies

retiring with the rank

of major,

are entitled; and that, on

my

retirement

from the Civil

Service, the immediate sale

of my Majority should be

Secured to

me.

The

grant of land would be but of small

importance to Mr. Government, and the only obstacle at present existing to the sale of my Majority is the fact of my continuing in the Civil Service, and therefore not drawing Half Pay. It is necessary to remark that at the end of December 1851, I shall have subscribed £730 to the Superannuation Fund. By this

arrangement the Colonial Estimates would be at

once relieved £1200

a year.