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granted to Mr Thornton of the Barber Master's department. Your Lordship thinks I ought not to have granted him ten months leave, or have given him any passage allowance, which it is admitted, he could not have claimed without eleven months and fifteen days.

2.

Under the circumstances, Your Lordship very naturally remarks that if the Rule regulating such allowances is to be relaxed, it should not be in favor of Officers whose services are the reverse of meritorious. There can be no doubt as to the correctness of that view, provided no other considerations be involved than how to apply the strict letter of the Rule to every case, whereas other considerations do practically often thrust themselves forward irrepressibly.

3.

This, I respectfully suggest, is one of those cases where the feverish heat and temptations of the climate here, with its depressing effect after long residence, and the great distance of the Colony from Europe, which renders it a matter of much expense and difficulty for a person in narrow circumstances to make his way back, are reasons for dealing somewhat tenderly with those members of the Civil Service.

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granted to Mr Thornton of the Barber Master's department. Your Lordship thinks I ought not to have granted him ten months leave, or have given him any passage allowance, which it is admitted, he could not have claimed without eleven months and fifteen days. 2. Under the circumstances, Your Lordship very naturally remarks that if the Rule regulating such allowances is to be relaxed, it should not be in favor of Officers whose services are the reverse of meritorious. There can be no doubt as to the correctness of that view, provided no other considerations be involved than how to apply the strict letter of the Rule to every case, whereas other considerations do practically often thrust themselves forward irrepressibly. 3. This, I respectfully suggest, is one of those cases where the feverish heat and temptations of the climate here, with its depressing effect after long residence, and the great distance of the Colony from Europe, which renders it a matter of much expense and difficulty for a person in narrow circumstances to make his way back, are reasons for dealing somewhat tenderly with those members of the Civil Service. Page 362
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granted to Mr Thornton of the bearber Master's department. Your Lordilig Kints I ought not to have granted him ten months leave. on have given him any passage allowance, I which it is admitted, he could not

have claimed without eleven month

and light days

2.

mae senica. –

Under the circumstances

Your Lordship very naturally remarts that if the Poule regulating such allowances is to be relaxed, it should not be in favor of Officers whose

the reverse of meritorious.. question of the

services are

there

Can

be

Mo

correctness of that view, provided other considerations be involved

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than how to apply, the strict letter of

the Perle

to every case,

whereas other considerations de fractically

often thrust themselves forward irrepressibly.

3.

This, I respectfully suggest

that pt the feenbarities and temptations of the climate here, with it's defresing effect after long and the great

now

residence,-

distance of the Colony from Europe, which renders it a matter of muusurt exfense and difficulty for a person in narrow circumstances to make his

back.

way

are reas¿us

for dealing somewhat tenderly with those members of the Evil Service

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