CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7] — Page 413

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12.

as the

even is

them,

rarely any applicants for

the full salary barely sufficient to enable a

European to exist, and pay

rent for a couple of rooms. A

ind

very

person of

wretched

steadiness

moderate qualifications

is sure when known to be able

to get

more

in

a mercantile.

13

are

accordingly

·409

as

a rule very

inefficiently filled_ their

retention is a

a

matter of

indifference, and changes

frequent

example

recurrence

مه

are

7

an

I

may

mention there

have been probably twenty changes

A

in the Gaol Staff alone

suring

the

last twelve months.

Retablishment. Prese offices

are

are

therefore not sought after except by those who wither fit for nothing else,

look to therm

as

A

who

means of

getting something better. They

8.

Under these circumstances

even

if

there

Offices

were

looked

upon as

of the second and third

classes, and appointed to provisionally:

it would be impossible to apply

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