CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4] — Page 373

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the Government bivil Hospital, and two Assistant Surgeons, and seeing that the Colonial durgeon will be relieved of his individual responsibility for the health of the Colony- Sanitary Board -

by

the new Sanitary

and its Medical Officer of

Health, and the new Assistant

Surgeon should add materially to the efficiency of the Depart. ment, I consider that the above staff is quite adequate for the purely medical requirements

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of the Colony, and should admit of an officer taking leave with-

out undue strain

on

members of the staff.

the other

I conour in D. Ayres

3.

opinion

that, in view

of their

very

limited chances of pro- motion and their special qualifications, the salaries of the Government Analyst and his Assistant are somewhat low; and I recommend that the maximum

salary attacked to these posts be raised respect.

ively