2.
watter of fact however M. Leiria has been employed in this Office without intermission since his return from sick leave last year. 3. I presume therefore there will be no Jove,
for the objection to his drawing full pay up to postorday, July 317.
4.
I have given very eccreful. consideration to the question of the r
adjustuent of salaries
tu
uenssary
re-
on lle
Léiricé's retirement. For the last teu.
vyears
at least the Staff of this Department has practically remained stationary,
whilst the work has
very largely
increased. With the growth of the Colony
and the
- yearly increase of steam. communication has come,
course,
of.com
increased correspondruck Local Postal frcilities howe been much developed,
Money
her
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Money Orden becsinoes, formuerty confined
to exchanges with the Euited Kingdom,
')
is now
extended to
rearly
the whole
civilized world, whilst the continual
increase in the number of Registered articles travoucitted has in itself.
formed no inconsiderable addition to the working strength
the demands on
of the Department. It is only by the-
• Assistant Postmaster General and
umpelf taking
an active personcel
share in even the manual duties
the manual duties of
the Office, that, in times of pressure, the work can be got through at all.
5.
Under these circumstances I have
had to do what is done to a large catent in other Post Offices, viz: aduit profationers who are willing to give
their
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