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Draughtsman

as an

kvas

requested

Augmentation to the staff

a reduction ..

and not as a

By the withdrawal of the Assistant Surveyor General, and the substitution of a draughtsman I am given

who is useful

a ma

in bnly one branch of the profession

t only

who is not.

but well versed in all.

instead of useful.

I am given,

one

-not take

ony

a man who can..

my place in case of

absence from duty.

sickness,

or

either by

Neomson's Welli

more.

than

Aft bunker

leave and as a

natural consequence,

twice the amount of work is

thrown apon

my

shoulders than

I have at present, and with which

it is

Jargly

Eugly possible, even with the

assistance of both Assistaut Surveyor General

and

Draughto

man, to keep pace.

For the future

it will be quite

impossible to prepare plans and specifications for work's contemplat -

ed, and in progress,

in the way

been

in which I have always

accustomed to see them done in

a+

Engineers Office

or to n

main_

over

-tain a proper supervision

and cheed upon, the increasing

The Department.

Some portion of the daily routine

Cxpenditure of

of duty

(3)

must be

neglected,

Consequence

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the service will in

suffer.

If any Office is to be abolished it should undoubtedly

be that

of

the Draughtsman, as it stands

clearly to reason, that the appointment of an inferior at £500 per

annum to take the

place of another at £ 750, with their respective merits as

before stated.

- although mading a slight re- -duction in the Cestimates, at a time when the duties are. increasing.

(the Folegraph has lately been finished, and will have to be maintained). is neither a matter of policy for the welfare of the Colony, nor of

justice to me, what the work.

personally. I know

of the "Department

is and how it.

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ht to be done

-ought

with

assert that's

and I. canJuction of £250.

the proposed red

per annum. it will be impossible

to get through it.

If the

efficiency of the service

is impaired it cannot but be that

the

must suffer.

Colony much

In conclusion I may

add that

I am being deprived of the aid

of my principal assistant, at the busiest time of the year, during

th

of