CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 383

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to

dispense

make an

with Mr Wilson's services and

arrangement with Mr blank,

|pending Mr Bird's absence, to

Carry

on

the duties of Apistant Surveyen General.

Bund

fper

apistunt Engineer receiving £700

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for

his services and also

petaining the right to private practice, which

fatter

was

the main inducement to Mr

blank to settle here.

10.

Mo?" Wilson, however, who had previously offered to undertake all

these duties in addition to his own, at

Lonce

became sensible that another could

not get through them efficiently

estipulated

with

me and even

and

indelicately

unged the point in Mr Clark's presence that I should bind M2 blank to eight

six hours

instead of the customary

usually

devoted to official duties. a peale meant to apply to the ordinary requirements

of all Departmental Services, but which,

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if there be

pressure of busines, is liable

to be indefinitely extended in

M.

any

occasion.

Your Grase will understand easily,

sperial

the tendency of such exccptional regulation

ome

and

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in the case of any

officer- pronticularly

a new arrival.

who thus found himself met with a preliminary

musical structness

and unusual

indicating suspicion of him.

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12. I, nevertheles, appented to this mangement Knowing that whether one or twelve hours work per day

was

stipulated for

то

practical difference would be made, as a

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