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the salaries which the Re trenchment Committee re

commended should be car

ried by the offices to which it is proposed to promote them. It is accordingly out of the question to com ply with the recommenda " tions of the Retrenchment. Committee as regards the

nominees for

present

motion.

4.

for pro

The salaries to be

drawn in future by

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these

three

on be

three officers if promote " must therefore either re- main the same as the sa- laries received by them in their present posts raised. I beg to recom. mend the adoption of the latter alternative, because I think that the long pub=" lic careers of these officers and their efficient discharge of duties which have in- creased as the volume of

of

shipping entering the har

bour:

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