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should be placed upon the time during which the

absentee should receive so

much as the whole.

remaining

of the

two thirds.

It has also been ~

considered desirable that

some distinction should be

drawn between cases

of.

ordinary illness, and illness arising from indiscretion- venereal disease for instance.

In view of the fact

that the Police in this

are

Colony, exposed as they sun and to the night air,

to

are more liable to malarial illness than other Civilians,

I consider (and the Council

agrees

with me) that the

limit of three months in

as the period

оне

y as

year, during which of only 1/3 of the

fair

be made, is a

deduction

pay

one,

should

and

that after that period half

pay should be deducted. As regards

illness

Colony

arising