CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 332

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avail unpeelf of the vacation leave of

fair manchs

ww

full pay.

The existing Colonial Regulations,

as Your Excellency

Excellency is aware, permit

of my going

home

ar

this vacation leave.

and, had the Governor's approval been

first obtained, combining with it such further leave of absence

do

arry

F

service

ow

half Salary

may justify. cognizant, however, of Your

Excellency's objection to this combination

of leave inasmuch as no Salary being disposable for four months, a difficully

filling up the acting appoint- ment, and I do not therefore apply

ecours in

for it.

Your Excellency would not, I

Nide & 134.

believe, object to

my laking the vacation leave for the purpose of recruiting my

heatch

bit

wver e

and

for relaxation from business

I to do

and return to

Hongkong at its expiration I should then have completed the required six years' suvice, and be in a position to apply for the ordinary leave of abounce on half Salary. Thus all the inconvenience foreseen by Your Excellency from the combination of leave

as

arising

bination of leave would be

practically entailed.

The arduous work I have.

gone

through during the last

year, and the weak state in which I now find myself render it imperative for to have a temporary release from my

me

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