CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12] — Page 574

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569

15

City

any

Ca Lu

tw

to obtain

Officer doing the double duty-

either of vacation leave or

long leave should,

receive the half pay of the absentee and in the event of his being unfit for duty from

and Govern

at Analytical work

having to be done at one of the Pharmacies the

Govern

ment should be responsible for fee required for such work. The Government would

only be put to extra expense

in the case of

vacation leave

in the case where

required in illness

the

Officer doing double duty.

144.

I respectfully submit to

your Lordship.

that it is a humiliating position for a

Government Officer to have to ask such favours of subordinates or outsiders. For the one

is asking

an officer to do double duty and

the other to ask an outsider to do duty at

half pay

is the only

way out

of

submit to

you

Lordship's

difficulties. Failing

that it is for the benefit of the Government Service

that these officers should

be enabled to take

their long leave once in five

years

that they

may improve their knowledge by personal

inspection

of

inventions that are

not to be

obtained from books

or periodicals.

The

Annual Report of the Medical Department

for 1893

will show how heavy

the duties

of

the Officers I have mentioned are.

Speaking for myself

I have been in

Government Service twenty-eight years or more

and of

twenty-one of which I have been in this Colony

the leave I have obtained has been

seven months. I am not in a position to ask

favours of subordinates or outsiders or

to pay

out of my own pocket. Many

the Medical Officers are in

their own

position

of being able to pay for

services out

of their own pocket.

That the proposals I have

made would not entail a

heavy expense

to the Government and in view of present

In what I have stated above I have

looked at this

matter from

an entirely administrative

point of view as

a full complement

of the Medical Staff

when the

ores or

duty

in emergencies

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569 15 City any Ca Lu tw to obtain Officer doing the double duty- either of vacation leave or long leave should, receive the half pay of the absentee and in the event of his being unfit for duty from and Govern at Analytical work having to be done at one of the Pharmacies the Govern ment should be responsible for fee required for such work. The Government would only be put to extra expense in the case of vacation leave in the case where required in illness the Officer doing double duty. 144. I respectfully submit to your Lordship. that it is a humiliating position for a Government Officer to have to ask such favours of subordinates or outsiders. For the one is asking an officer to do double duty and the other to ask an outsider to do duty at half pay is the only way out of submit to you Lordship's difficulties. Failing that it is for the benefit of the Government Service that these officers should be enabled to take their long leave once in five years that they may improve their knowledge by personal inspection of inventions that are not to be obtained from books or periodicals. The Annual Report of the Medical Department for 1893 will show how heavy the duties of the Officers I have mentioned are. Speaking for myself I have been in Government Service twenty-eight years or more and of twenty-one of which I have been in this Colony the leave I have obtained has been seven months. I am not in a position to ask favours of subordinates or outsiders or to pay out of my own pocket. Many the Medical Officers are in their own position of being able to pay for services out of their own pocket. That the proposals I have made would not entail a heavy expense to the Government and in view of present In what I have stated above I have looked at this matter from an entirely administrative point of view as a full complement of the Medical Staff when the ores or duty in emergencies
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569

15

ziy

City

any

Ca Lu

tw

to obta

Officer doing the double duty-

either of vacation leave or

long leave should,

receive the half pay of the absenter and inn the event of his being unfit for duty from

and Govern

at Analytical work

having to be done at one of the Pharmacies the

illia

Govern

roment should be responsible for feeon required for such work. The Government would

only be put to extra expense

vacation leave

ANA S

in the caev wher

required in illness

the

ay

Officer dosing double duty.

144.

I respectfully subsuit to

liating position for at

GEN

Lordship.

that it is a humiliats.

VALI

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of anking

an offices to dodouble duty ands

the other to ack an outrides to do duty at as o

half pay

gr.

cies is the o

only

y

out

of

submit to

you

Lordships

difficulties. Falzo

that it is for the benefit of the Government Service

that there officers should

be enabled to take

their long leave once in hif

may

years

that they

improve their knowledge by personal,

thev

inspection.

of

inventions that are

their

2. zon

.

prove

ente and

of yearly

a knowledge not to be

prope.

obtained from books

of periodicale.

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The

,-!

Annual Report of the Medical Department

7893

13 will show how heavy

for 10

every on

of

15.

are the d24

the Officere I have mentioned!

Speaking for myself

I have beers air

Government Service twenty eight years over

and tho

only

twenty one of which I have been this Colony

leave I have obtained, how been

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favours of subordinates or outsiders or

to pay

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I have represented).

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a position

for

services out

of my own

cket.

as locum tenens out

Inade

would, not entail æ

heavy expente /

to the Gove

ment and in view of present

In what I have stated above I have

looked at this

matter from.

entirely. Ar

point of view es

full complement

an ad201

any

hine

the lydical Staff

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