CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3] — Page 158

months vacation leave combined

with 12 months half pay

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to decide the

leave,

practise date for Mr Austin's departure might be officially

as soon as

convenient,

As such departure would

at all times be equally

to

I am

convenient

myself personally, seeing that I am or at least ought to be individually

Conversant

with all details of the business of the Colony and as Your Lordship's language distinctly sanctioned that leave it only remained for

the Council to grant it from the date selected by Mr Austin

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himself - That Gentleman having named the 15th of next month (February);

as the date which he preferred,

leave for 16 months has accordingly

been granted to him from that date - four months of which are to be vacation leave on full pay- and the remaining twelve months half pay's enclose the Certificate

of Mr Austin's resident service -

and the leave allowable to him -

which latter is put down

1. for a resident service of Years months.

Not merely therefore has Your Lordship sanctioned the

combination

of two

Years

Vacation