CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7] — Page 538

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that the Estimates would have to be submitted for your Lordship's approval, and that I must therefore not reckon too confidently upon the increase; but that should the Estimates be approved I should then be allowed to draw the increased amount from the 12th of January 1890.

When, therefore, your Lordship's Despatch arrived here early in June approving the Estimates, Mr. Lister told me that I might, on the 12th of July, be paid salary for the month of June in accordance therewith, and from the 1st of January to the 31st of May the balance between such monthly rate and the salary I had received would be paid in addition.

Upon this assurance I entered into a more convenient house at a greater rental than the one I occupied, and also incurred considerable expense for additional furniture &c. which I shall be unable to meet out of my present salary without a very severe effort.

On the 26th of June I was much surprised to find the pay sheets made out as usual i.e. at the monthly rate of $208.33 instead of $300 I expected, and at once addressed a letter to the Hon. H.E. Wodehouse, C.M.G., Acting Colonial Treasurer pointing this out; the matter was by him referred to the Auditor General, who replied that the Estimates were framed with reference to my predecessor - Mr. Hooper. On the 30th of June, I again saw Mr. Lister, who stated that the Estimates were...

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535 6 H that the Estimates would have to be submitted for your Lordship's approval, and that I must therefore not reckon too confidently upon the increase; but that should the Estimates be approved I should then be allowed to draw the increased amount from the 12th of January 1890. When, therefore, your Lordship's Despatch arrived here early in June approving the Estimates, Mr. Lister told me that I might, on the 12th of July, be paid salary for the month of June in accordance therewith, and from the 1st of January to the 31st of May the balance between such monthly rate and the salary I had received would be paid in addition. Upon this assurance I entered into a more convenient house at a greater rental than the one I occupied, and also incurred considerable expense for additional furniture &c. which I shall be unable to meet out of my present salary without a very severe effort. On the 26th of June I was much surprised to find the pay sheets made out as usual i.e. at the monthly rate of $208.33 instead of $300 I expected, and at once addressed a letter to the Hon. H.E. Wodehouse, C.M.G., Acting Colonial Treasurer pointing this out; the matter was by him referred to the Auditor General, who replied that the Estimates were framed with reference to my predecessor - Mr. Hooper. On the 30th of June, I again saw Mr. Lister, who stated that the Estimates were...
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