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I have been fortunate in obtaining and retaining the services of his abilities for so long a period and I regret that his salary is too small as I consider him entitled to much consideration and from his long service deserving of remuneration at a higher rate, especially as at the present time every article of consumption and house rent is at an extravagantly high price.

Extract from Surveyor General's Letter No.4984/18th September, 1859.

"Mr Power, Accountant and Clerk of Registry, has been employed in this Office a period of 14 years, he has been without exception one of the most zealous and conscientious Officers of the Department; I have in the whole course of that period never had cause to censure him in the remotest degree, but the reverse, it has been a pleasure to myself and it must have been a satisfaction to him to know how favourably

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I have been fortunate in obtaining and retaining the services of his abilities for so long a period and I regret that his salary is too small as I consider him entitled to much consideration and from his long service deserving of remuneration at a higher rate, especially as at the present time every article of consumption and house rent is at an extravagantly high price.Extract from Surveyor General's Letter No.4984/18th September, 1859."Mr Power, Accountant and Clerk of Registry, has been employed in this Office a period of 14 years, he has been without exception one of the most zealous and conscientious Officers of the Department; I have in the whole course of that period never had cause to censure him in the remotest degree, but the reverse, it has been a pleasure to myself and it must have been a satisfaction to him to know how favourably
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tave

been fortunate in

obtaining and retaining

of his abilities for

so long

A.

period and

regret that his salary is

to truall as

I consider

him entitled to much consideration and prom his

long service deserving of

remuneration at a

rate,

the

more

higher

especially

uption

as at the present time

every article of consum

and house rent is at aw

extravagantly high price:

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Extract from Surveyor General's Letter No. 49 8418th

September, 1859. of18

"Mr Power, Accountant and Clerk of Registry, has been employed in this Office a period of 14 years, he has been without exception one of the most zealous and conscientions Officers of the Department ; I have in the

of that period

whole course.

never had cause

to censure

him in the remotest degree, but the reverse, it has been

a pleasure to myself and it must have been.

a

satisfaction.

to him to know how

favourably

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