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not furt

on Mo2 Navie other work than

om

as Auditor.

that belonging to him Unquestionably there is no

I am myself

mone

hequently

officer to whom

in the habit

and

fof referring many complicated questions- anal Mo? Minnies experience, sagacity abality have long been and still are

available and most valuable to this

| Government

5.

Such might not be the his sucreper, and therefore I pee

Succefor

for making any

cabe

with

see no reason

increase to the

to the palany

of the office except on the special ground of the value of M2 Mennie's personal

Services. The long period of eleven years during which he has

now served and

the fact that at times the Colonial part

>

of his work does really prejudicially

affect his interests.

Thus lately it

was

thought advisable

that he should be refused additional

leave by Your Grace at a time when the storeign Office

was

willing and mocions to detain him in London:

regarded the

full pay so far as regarded

moiety of his

his salary

derived from that

source. Mo Mennie also

M?

that the loss entailed on

m

informo

him thereby

in connection with the settlement of his private affairs amounted to nearly

whole year's salary from the

£500

Colony.

on w

am

awane

that under three

circumstances M Mennie

was

almost