CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9] — Page 442

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mail without the risk of serious errors, and avoid those who could be so trusted, several are incapacitated by their liability to sea-sickness. The Marine Officer finds it difficult to provide any substitute for a single trip, moreover to perform tasks like keeping up a set of books or the like.

The result is that the Marine Officer naturally struggles as long as he can, rather than surrender a portion of his event for Salary, which an increased expense journey to Singapore involves. It makes it natural that the two Officers who could go should expect to be paid for going and for the attendant discomforts. Marine Sorting is scarcely an Entry which any Officer may reasonably be expected to make it worth the while of a colleague to relieve him. In the case of W Barrass, the Department lost a valuable officer in consequence of this.

It appears to me that a far less trying system, and one that would be in every way beneficial to the Department, would be introduced by having three Marine Officers instead of two, one to perform...

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439 mail without the risk of serious errors, and avoid those who could be so trusted, several are incapacitated by their liability to sea-sickness. The Marine Officer finds it difficult to provide any substitute for a single trip, moreover to perform tasks like keeping up a set of books or the like. The result is that the Marine Officer naturally struggles as long as he can, rather than surrender a portion of his event for Salary, which an increased expense journey to Singapore involves. It makes it natural that the two Officers who could go should expect to be paid for going and for the attendant discomforts. Marine Sorting is scarcely an Entry which any Officer may reasonably be expected to make it worth the while of a colleague to relieve him. In the case of W Barrass, the Department lost a valuable officer in consequence of this. It appears to me that a far less trying system, and one that would be in every way beneficial to the Department, would be introduced by having three Marine Officers instead of two, one to perform...
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439

mail without the risk of serious

errons,

avid

those who could be

so trusted, several

are

incapacitated by their liability

to sea-sickness. Srence

Marine Officer finds it difficult

to provide any

a

substitute,

single trip, moreover

perform, like keeping up

set of books

6.

or the like.

The result is that

the Marine Officer naturally

struggies

as

long

as he can,

rather than surrender aportion of

his

event

for

Salary

the

which a~

increased expenses sowney to singapore involves →

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tws Officers who could go, should expect to be paid for

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and for the attendant discomforts. Marine Sorting is

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Entry

which

any Officer

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to make it worth

the while of a folleague to relieve

hine. In the case

of W Barrases,

the Gepartment lost a valuable

officer

that

mit

a

in

consequence of this

It appears to me for less trying system,

that wants be in every

three

wry beneficial to the Department, wouts be introduces by having Marine Officer instead of two, one

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