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an

iner

in cr éas-€

of pay

5. During the past four months

I have found that, taking into consideration

the cost of living in this #copictal, I am

less

than I did in

now receiving pay England. Moreover the salary attached to this office is obviously not commensurate with the Statutory training an

officer must go through in England in order to obtain the neccosary qualification. This will be -evident on comparing my pay with those who have not received any special training for

of the posts they now occupy in the service I would remind His Excellency that I

am a member of the Pharmaceutical Society

Preat Britain, that I have been

f

in the

рол

actice

of

ton years.

three

ongaged Pharmacy for upwards of

6. I am alive to the fact that

having entered into an agreement to serve

Y cars, there would under ordinary circumstances be reasonable objections to entertaining an application of this kind :

never thet coo

10

nevertheless having regard to the foregoing considerations, to the fact that I shall

I

no

only be in receipt of $88 per month on the expiration of this period, I am left alternative but to ask for the matter to be

brought to the notice of His Excellency now.

Grue copy.

I have, &c.,

(8 d.) 5. W. Lucas

asot. apothecary.

(sd.) al. ex aco

a.ra.

17 Rovt., 1890.