CO129-101 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [10-12] — Page 231

from

Ffficers

There Iffi Home

last year by

and

During

ivere appointed

the

Cruse

$7

year by the Secretary of State, have already shown by the order and discisline into

they

state of which they have brought their resrective establishments, that better selections could not have been made.

£400

a

They receive at present

year

each with quarters,

the

onerous

and

of

but considering ressonsible native

I think they

their duties

are underkaid as

compared with other Government

fficials in the Civil Service of the roof of this I need

Colony.

only remark that the first Clerks

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229

and the heid

said from

in the Government offices receive

£400 a year generally £400 of other departments £700 to £1000 a year exch

It is unquestionably to the of the Government, having

interest

at considerable cxsence secund the

trained services of good men, to pay them liberally,

to remain.

so as to induce them

I recommend

therefore that Mese? Douglas and Tomlin's salaries be raised for their second year of service to £450, and for the think and subsequent years to 2500, at which rate with quarters, their slaces will I hove be felt by thein to be worth retaining