CO129-151 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [7-8] — Page 89

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16.

17.

application for payment.

17.

To me it

inconceivable

Dearvo

how the words used'

Py

the Governor

can be distorted from their legitimate

an

meaning regulating salary into the revival of all the conditions of

1 which differed entirely agreement in chief essentials from the

old

newend.

It is monstrueus too to suppose I

that the Governor

ever contemplated

that Mr. Kydd should be allowed

to play fast and loose between two Agreements that

works

were

that if the

completed in Summer

and his 2nd contrad

brought to

a

was

therely

close he should be

at liberty to claim 3 months' notice

but

at bis

That is what

Inventariz

J

under the Not contract to

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him

carry

on to Autumn and then to hark back upon contract No. 2, and clann under it a right to cartine in the service to the following Spring. Such is precisely the claime

In as we say now raised by Mr Stydd and

Harded with

#

#

as

che

supported by Mr Moowon Pokfool Works have to words of the latter "been brought to

use the

successful termmation "in Summer, at a period of the year which permits of a relien to England Summer, under the contract of

March 1890, and aget Mr Kydd

claims to remain in the service

in

the Colony for 3 months under the

of

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