CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3] — Page 407

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tory financial statement for the

year 1897 presented

despatch, a

in this des

a re-con-

sideration of your decision in regard to the curtail-

ment of Publia Works Extraor

dinary during year and of your

of the proposed

of salary to the~

the current

of your disallow

ance

creases.

in

First Assistant Engineer in the Public Works Department

" and the Chinese clerk and

Collector in the Registrar General's

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General's Office. The holders of both the appointments in question are thoroughly de- serving officers, and I trust that

your objections to the proposed additions to their salaries, which were

passed

unanimously by the unof ficial members, will be re- moved by the facts stated in this despatch.

3.

ask for.

I would further

a re-consideration

of your decision that iṛ

Badeley