CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3] — Page 235

"Treation Leave and the half day

Limited, to visit Europe. –

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to be

I

and a

That system, his Secretary

system,

has grown up

in his

opinion

a very serious Public inconvenience

grave impediment to the administration of the Government,-

more especially because here instead of

an annual Vacation Leave

Consisting of six weeks only - as in other Colonies, it consists of two

months

that, when

Coordinating

both was intended but a liberal nearly nine weeks; to hold

Officer is allowed-

contrary to the spirit and original

hand must

object of Vacation Leave. To commence with four months' treation Leave-

The Governor

finds himself under

Air Calendar Month:

hardly because

the vacation have

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made arrangingent by

a the lord being able

& hourding profusely

for the duties

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obligation to fill the vacant office

some

one

willing to discharge

its perhaps arduous duties for nothing during your four months,

five weeks longer than in any other Colony, whilst he has also

to find

-

some suitable person willing

to officiate gratuitously for the latter Acting Officer, during that same

protracted period.

"It is obvious, this Executivency

remarks, that such a systeme must often preclude the Governor from obtaining the best man for the duty to be done, and it is therefore a direct injury

to the Public Service.