CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9] — Page 488

in the Colonial Secretarys

Office

which you

recommend

I thould wish to be informed whether then is no prospect of providing for this offices in the ordinary course of promotion before any long forced has elapsed.

I observe that this Clerk's service has

only been of 2 years duration,

and I take this opportunity of impressing upon you the

importance of

the system

of lacking the salaries of

Offices fixed as far possible and teaching Office is

as the

to cook to promotion

rasad of efficient service -

a system which is preferable

the salaries

-

to that of increasing of individual Officers.

4 with respect to the 200. paragraph of your despatek Extimates as to keeping in reserve a balance of $ 50,000 I have to

on

observe

the

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observe that

you

appear to have mis=

- understood, the instruction of my predecessor.

5 It was not his

intention to direct

to leave a margin

you

of $50,000 between the Estimated Revenue and

Expenditure of each

year,

into

but that

that lathing

account the

balance of Assets wer

Linbitities on the pot

day of

the year

which in the financial Estimate for the

year

it