CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 626

I'Aquilar - if develings

provided, keepers would he

were not

of these

mobtamiable. In the case

Officers, their quarters are also their

cannot leave them

prisors, they

at mich a

without permission or without expense ( of boat hire). Living distance as at Cape I'Aquilar

enhances the cost of living (meat

out, bottles are broken,

bad

goes goving

parce's are wetted and spoilt / to assces Mr. Baird's quarters therefore

very high

(two cooms) at such a

Late

warld a rate that be unobtainable

ui Victoria would only I submit.

have been done when unaware

the exceptional circumstances of the case. Mr Livesey's statement about the hardship entailed on him in the education of his children is to the point and only cuphasises my

of

emarks that the situations.

these

quarters would appear to

afford

afford legitimate grounds for

petition for compensation. The

car

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never be considered

Officers to be off duty; they

they

ale

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are placed where for the convenience

of the

Government that requires their

attendance and

and day, if thes

rgilance night

were not so.

placed they would be useless. In the case of the older officers engaged

in

England at sterling

at sterling who have been suffering

depreciation of the ce

for years

currency

by

an act of grace

the

when

that grievance

was to be corrected to fund the

promise kept to the ear

only to be

absolutely negatived by

arr ut

utterly

disproportionate value being puton quarters without which no

ut

engagement

could possibly have

been entered into is I would most

submit peculiarly hard.

respectfully

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There are three officers.

who