CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6] — Page 153

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consideration of their clain, that, enters

something

can

- for theme, the

be done for

Government will shortly lose their

services,

How the work of the

out is then to be carried

Department

on,

confess I do not know. Even if it is

el

carried on in some more or less halting

fashion,

officer

not see where the traine

I do not see

is to come.

all told. This is the salary usually paid

in Nercantile houses here to an efficient. Book Keeper or Acconcitaut after Book-Keeper

only

3 or 4 years service. From this amount it rises with length of service, and the character of the duties required to about $200, though salarin offer25, $300, and even $350 are paid in v.

special

cases.

frone

to replace elle

7%

alt=

Carvathe when he retires. Arrears in

the colleation of public money grow. up much awere quickly than they

got

down again.

O. BOLICKI

are, after a

quch avec ro

Now that we

struggle, free form

it would seeu

desirable to keep s

b.

o the foresent scelery of

very

The present salary of Mr. Madar

the 32 Clark, is $80 a month. This

would be paid in aBauk or - Ntercantile house to a

a junior

av a tuere

who, entering

after

some 4 or 5

useful,

1 years

clerk

bay, has shewn himself.

and who writes a good hand.

Such junior derks get salaries rising

Wz Alves,

to $100 and $110

a-

enorth.

b

No Bank not Mercantile

tro

the second clerk, is $150 per uconth,

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