CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4] — Page 431

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I would be pleased to recommend that my passage money be refunded to me, seeing that it has already been granted to me and that I should have drawn it but for the fact that I had reason to believe that the appointment of Police magistrate would not be given to me.

I would also request that I be allowed to reckon your Lordship's attention to the fact that at the time such refund was granted my salary, including an acting appointment, was under £400 a year, and I submit that it would be hard to allow the fact of my having left the Government service for a few months under the circumstances I have related, and my having been afterwards appointed in my term of service to a higher post in the Government service, viz: from October 1882 to August 1883.

I would also draw your attention to the fact that it was the same service that prevented me from obtaining such refund.

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I would be pleased to recommend that my passage money be refunded to me, seeing that it has already been granted to me and that I should have drawn it but for the fact that I had reason to believe that the appointment of Police magistrate would not be given to me. I would also request that I be allowed to reckon your Lordship's attention to the fact that at the time such refund was granted my salary, including an acting appointment, was under £400 a year, and I submit that it would be hard to allow the fact of my having left the Government service for a few months under the circumstances I have related, and my having been afterwards appointed in my term of service to a higher post in the Government service, viz: from October 1882 to August 1883. I would also draw your attention to the fact that it was the same service that prevented me from obtaining such refund.
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429 be pleased to recommend that my passage money be refunded to me, seeing that it has already been granted mne and that I should have drawn. it but for the fact that I had reason to believe that the appointment of Police magistrate would not be given to + I would also request that I be allowed to reckon Your Lordship's attention to the fact that at the time such refund was granted my salary including an acting appointment was under £400 a year and I submit that it ! would be hard to allow the fact of my having left the Government service! for a few months under the circumstances I have related and my having been afterwards appointed in my the months term of service I was in to a higher post in the the Government service viz : from October 1882 to August 1883. I would also draw your same service to prevent me from obtaining such refund. L.
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be pleased to recommend

that my passage money be refunded to me, seeing

that it has already been

granted

mne

and that

I should have drawn.

it but

for

the fact that

I had reason to believe

that the appointment of Police magistrate would

not be

given to

+

I would also request

that I be allowed to reckon

Your Lordship's attention to the fact that at the time such refund

was

granted my salary including

an

acting appointment

was under £400 a

year

and I submit that it !

would be hard to allow

the fact of my having

left the Government service!

for

a

few months under

the circumstances I have

related and

my

having

been afterwards appointed

in

my the months

term of service

I was

in

to a

higher post in the

the Government service

viz : from October 1882 to

August 1883.

I would also

draw

your

same service to prevent

me

from obtaining such refund.

L.

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