CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4] — Page 13

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He was receiving; that the Government had allowed Mr. Alexander, the former Registrar, to draw emoluments to the extent of two or three thousand pounds a year; that the Government had broken faith with him in not giving him full pay from the date of his appointment in London. Up to the month of September he complained to me never "except on one occasion orally when he said Sir John Smale had referred to him in a judgment about public charge of the Court, but I was able to point out to him that the Chief Justice evidently alluded to the want of personal audit by the Auditor General, and not to the Registrar, and I told Mr. Gibbons if he puts his complaint in writing, I had no doubt the Chief Justice would make that clear.

Beyond this, he confined his grievances, in his interviews with me, to the question of his emoluments. He repeatedly said he had no objection to sending his letters to the Government, as Registrar, through the Chief Justice.

6. He got it into his head that the Finance Committee would vote a sum to bring up his remuneration to the average amount obtained by Mr. Alexander. I allowed them to pass, so as to avoid any absolute poverty to him. He told me, and he told them, that it was, to him, a thousand pounds a year.

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11 E He was receiving; that the Government had allowed Mr. Alexander, the former Registrar, to draw emoluments to the extent of two or three thousand pounds a year; that the Government had broken faith with him in not giving him full pay from the date of his appointment in London. Up to the month of September he complained to me never "except on one occasion orally when he said Sir John Smale had referred to him in a judgment about public charge of the Court, but I was able to point out to him that the Chief Justice evidently alluded to the want of personal audit by the Auditor General, and not to the Registrar, and I told Mr. Gibbons if he puts his complaint in writing, I had no doubt the Chief Justice would make that clear. Beyond this, he confined his grievances, in his interviews with me, to the question of his emoluments. He repeatedly said he had no objection to sending his letters to the Government, as Registrar, through the Chief Justice. 6. He got it into his head that the Finance Committee would vote a sum to bring up his remuneration to the average amount obtained by Mr. Alexander. I allowed them to pass, so as to avoid any absolute poverty to him. He told me, and he told them, that it was, to him, a thousand pounds a year.
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