CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9] — Page 488

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The Honourable

485

06700

REC

hes 21 OCT 19

26. Now it seems to me, I have no prospects but ceaseless toil. I trust, therefore, that His Excellency may, under the circumstances, be pleased, once more to endeavour to move the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies to substantially increase my salary to a degree commensurate with the enhanced and daily increasing importance of the Department, and with the unusual, and extraordinary labours imposed on me in resuscitating a department that had become so discredited as to require such new and unusual conditions to be imposed on the appointment of the officer charged with its rehabilitation.

I have &c.

(Signed) Wm. C.H. Hastings,

Postmaster General.

The Colonial Secretary,

&c.

&c.

860.

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The Honourable 485 06700 REC hes 21 OCT 19 26. Now it seems to me, I have no prospects but ceaseless toil. I trust, therefore, that His Excellency may, under the circumstances, be pleased, once more to endeavour to move the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies to substantially increase my salary to a degree commensurate with the enhanced and daily increasing importance of the Department, and with the unusual, and extraordinary labours imposed on me in resuscitating a department that had become so discredited as to require such new and unusual conditions to be imposed on the appointment of the officer charged with its rehabilitation. I have &c. (Signed) Wm. C.H. Hastings, Postmaster General. The Colonial Secretary, &c. &c. 860.
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e Honourable 485 06700 REC hes 21 OCT 19 26. Now it seems to me, I have no prospects but cease- less toll. I trust, therefore, that His Excellency, may, under the circumstances, be pleased, once more to endeavour to move the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies to substantially increase my salary to a degree commensurate with the enhanced and daily increasing importance of the Department, and with the unusual, and extraordinary labours imposed on me in resuscitating a department that had become so discredited as to require such new and unusual conditions to be imposed on the ap- pointment of the officer charged with its rehabilitation. I have &c. (Signed) Wm. C.H.Hastings, Postmaster General.. The Colonial Secretary, &C. &c. 860.
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e Honourable

485

06700

REC

hes 21 OCT 19

26. Now it seems to me, I have no prospects but cease-

less toll. I trust, therefore, that His Excellency, may,

under the circumstances, be pleased, once more to endeavour

to move the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for

the Colonies to substantially increase my salary to a

degree commensurate with the enhanced and daily increasing

importance of the Department, and with the unusual, and

extraordinary labours imposed on me in resuscitating a

department that had become so discredited as to require

such new and unusual conditions to be imposed on the ap-

pointment of the officer charged with its rehabilitation.

I have &c.

(Signed) Wm. C.H.Hastings,

Postmaster General..

The Colonial Secretary,

&C.

&c.

860.

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