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Clerk of Court during Mr Weatherhead's absence - There will now until Mr Weatherhead's return be performed by Mr. T. Turner of the Registrar General's department

3. I had hoped that the office of Clerk of Court might be left in abeyance for a few months, but W: Adams, Acting Chief Justice, has represented the advisability of filling it.

4. And therefore is alternative no but to take a clerk from another department.

5. I avail myself of this opportunity to point out the extreme difficulty I find in making provision for the conduct of public duties under circumstances like the present.

6. This Colony differs entirely from every other in this respect: there are no Candidates for Government employment as few or none come here to look for such, and Official Salaries are so small in comparison to the general style of the place that the vacant posts are not worth acceptance, especially when, as in the present instance, the situation is temporary, and the amount of Salary offered is ...

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256 bnties of Clerk of Court during Mr Weatherhead's absence - There will now until Mr Weatherhead's return be performed by Mr. T. Turner of the Registrar General's department 3. I had hoped that the office of Clerk of Court might be left in abeyance for a few months, but W: Adams, Acting Chief Justice, has represented the advisability of filling it. 4. And therefore is alternative no but to take a clerk from another department. 5. I avail myself of this opportunity to point out the extreme difficulty I find in making provision for the conduct of public duties under circumstances like the present. 6. This Colony differs entirely from every other in this respect: there are no Candidates for Government employment as few or none come here to look for such, and Official Salaries are so small in comparison to the general style of the place that the vacant posts are not worth acceptance, especially when, as in the present instance, the situation is temporary, and the amount of Salary offered is ...

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256 bnties of Clerk of Count during Mr Weatherheads absence - There will now until Mr Weatherheads return be performed by Mr. T. Turner of the Registrar Genuals department 3. I had hoped that the office of Clerk of Court Court might be left in - of abeyance for a few months, but W: Adams, Acting Chief Justice, has represented the advisability of filling it. 4. I And therefore is alternative no but to take a clerk from another Ferartinent. I avail myself of this opportunity C to point out the extreme difficulty I find in making provision the conduct of public duties under circumstances like the present. 6. This Colony differs entirely from every мо other in this respect. there are Candidates of any position for Government employment as jew or come here to look for such, and none the Official Salaries comparison to the are so small in general style of the place that the vacant ports are not worth acceptance, expecially when, us in the present instance, the situation is temporary, and the amount of Salary offered 1.1.

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256

bnties of

Clerk

of Count during Mr

Weatherheads absence - There will now until Mr Weatherheads return be

performed by Mr. T. Turner of the Registrar Genuals department

3. I had hoped that the office of Clerk of Court

Court might be left in - of abeyance for a few months, but W: Adams, Acting Chief Justice, has represented the advisability of filling it.

I And therefore is alternative

but to take a clerk from another

Ferartinent.

I avail

myself of this opportunity

to point out the extreme difficulty I find in making provision

the

conduct of public duties under circumstances like the present.

6. This Colony differs entirely from

every

мо

other in this respect. there are

Candidates

of any position for

Government employment as jew or

come here to look for such, and

none

the

Official

Salaries

comparison to the

are so small in

general style

of the place that the vacant ports are not worth acceptance, expecially

when,

in the

present instance,

the situation is temporary, and the amount of Salary offered 1.1.

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