CO129-151 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [7-8] — Page 80

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If this be agreed to certain

Clauses of the orginal agreement

as to right of passage

of Salary

and payment

were to nermain in statu quo.

On the 17th March the Governor

writes that he

Mr Kydd

on

is

willing

to Continue

the terms of his original

"agreement and as proposed in

"reference to the period of his arrival

in

England 2

By "the terms of his original "Agreement" I understand those referred to by Mr Kyold might right of passage and payment of Salary.

The agreement them stands that he is to continue until suc= cesspal tumination of works with right of passage and salary to terms of original according agreement, and that if his services are dispensed with, after completion of Reservoir, the dispensation is

to be

at

at a time to enable him to land off

}

in

England in Spring

unders

Vy

Summer months.

The Works were ended, as I

erstand, in thay- and his services should then have been dispensed with, and he could have landed in

the Summer months.

I do not think three

England

im

months notice

nud

necessary,

as this

was not one of the terms which Mr "Kydd proposed should remain

statu quo ·

in

But notice is given him

to end

July It was by

on

Emig

30th September,

78

a subsequent tetter explained

to him that he

But I

might

4leave at once,

am disposed to think that

too late

even this dispensation

на

as he could not, of he had left.

in

Only

arrive in

England

er

summer month – unless September is

a summer month

As he

way

continued in

work until July, I apprehend that

ment was bound to keep

the fonemment

kun

Ly

pay

hun

salary

antita

Late

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