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plication for salary.

an increase

of~

-salary

The maximum attached to Dr Lowson's appoint_ ment is $3,000 a year; to which must be added the value of his quarters and a yearly al- lowance of #360 as Assistant Medical officer of the Govern- ment Lunatic Asylum.

Upon attaining the~

maximum in November next;

naximum in

D. Lowson will be in receipt of a salary of $280 a month in

addition

9075

addition to quarters as against

$300 a month and an allowance

of #60 for quarters to be drawn by the newly appointed Assist.")" -ant Surgeon, Dr. Clark, (S. of S. despatch W. 137 of 1895).

It would, I consider, be anomalous that a junior officer

should be on a

higher rate of

pay than his senior in the~. same department, and in view

of this

: this

anomaly and of the excellent services rendered by Dr Lowson during the plague opi-

demie