CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8] — Page 186

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Since my appointment to the present post in 1861, I have drawn a certain pay, but by a letter recently received from the Paymaster General, copy enclosed, I am now called upon to forego it.

The Memorial fully explains the circumstances under which I have hitherto drawn the pay in question. I desire to bring to the notice of His Excellency the heavy loss to which the Paymaster General's letter of 9 March 1912 subjects me, with the hope that His Excellency will be able to represent to the Home Government that a reduction of £164 a year in a Colony where the nature of the climate precludes an Officer from keeping his Children, thus necessitating the expense of having two establishments, one in England and one here, is one of a grave and serious nature and calculated to place me in pecuniary difficulties.

The expenses of rent and living in this Colony are great, and but for the receipt of my Naval Pay, I should have been unable to support myself in it, having...

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Since my appointment to the present post in 1861, I have drawn a certain pay, but by a letter recently received from the Paymaster General, copy enclosed, I am now called upon to forego it. The Memorial fully explains the circumstances under which I have hitherto drawn the pay in question. I desire to bring to the notice of His Excellency the heavy loss to which the Paymaster General's letter of 9 March 1912 subjects me, with the hope that His Excellency will be able to represent to the Home Government that a reduction of £164 a year in a Colony where the nature of the climate precludes an Officer from keeping his Children, thus necessitating the expense of having two establishments, one in England and one here, is one of a grave and serious nature and calculated to place me in pecuniary difficulties. The expenses of rent and living in this Colony are great, and but for the receipt of my Naval Pay, I should have been unable to support myself in it, having...
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of since my appoint

my appointment to present past in 1861, but which by a letter recently received from the Paymaster General, Copy enclosed, I am now called grade 10

upon to forego.

The Memorial.

fully

120 plains

explains the circumstances

under which I have hitherto

drawn the pay in

pay in question. I desire to bring to the notice of His Cxcellency the heavy loss to which the __ Day

tir General's letter

9 March 1912

subjents m2, with the hope that His Excellency will su fil to represent to the Home

*

176

Government that a mulet of

£164a

year

in a

Colony

where the nature of the Climate

precludes

Officer from keeping

his Children, thus necessitating

the expense of having two -establishments, one in England

and one,

very

and

here, is

one

of a grave

serious nature and

calculated to place

been

me in

pecuniary difficulties.

The expenses of rent und living in this Colony have great that but for the rescipt of my Nawals Tag I should have been unable to -support myself in it having

do

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