Sme. Sewrie, it not being uncommon for Naval and Military Officers to receive a post under a Colonial Government whilst drawing remuneration from the Imperial, as for example, the case of Captain's Ducat and Dempster, who drew pay from the Superintendency & Stonning Cove; and of Messrs Thomsett and the late Mr King-Barbon &c., one being in receipt, I believe, of retired pay and the other having commuted his on entering Colonial service; that the leave granted to Officers in the Colonial Service is a reward to themselves of Regulation leave to visit their native land from want of the necessary funds to pay their passage to and fro England, some consideration may justly be shown them when the opportunity occurs to them to improve their livelihood to their personal profit; and that the principle involved in an Officer's employing his leisure to his own advantage seems to me to be one to which the existing Government of Great Britain is not averse if I have rightly understood the following words (Annex I) in an English paper "that it is not an incentive to future services, and when subject to approval, where no extra expense to Government, is incurred, it is not considered that any hardship is inflicted: that in the Case of English Officers, receiving such salaries as I was in receipt of at this time, it being inferred from a Despatch of July 1880," the principle which should guide us is that "the employer, and, consequently, not the State, has any right to interfere with the leisure occupations of its Servants, unless those leisure occupations interfere with the due discharge of their duty in the Public Service." Should the Officers avail themselves...
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