CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4] — Page 579

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of displeasure, I caused Mr. Remedios to be informed

that in the Harbour Office he would not earn the yearly

increment of $60 which he would have obtained had he re-

mained in the Colonial Secretary's Office.

7.

Thereupon on the 15th. ultimo, Mr.

J. A. dos Remedios tendered his resignation, which I

accepted with effect from the 23rd. vltimo. At the same

time Mr. Almada e Castro, who found the long hours of

work at the Colonial Secretary's Office and especially

the work after nightfall, very trying to his eyesight,

applied to be re-transferred to his former post of 1st.

Clerk of the Imports and Exports Office. I granted Mr.

Almada's request, and provisionally appointed Mr. R. H.

A. Craig, Clerk in charge of the Printing Department at

Victoria Gaol, to be registration clerk at the Colonial

Secretary's Office with a salary of $60 a month. Mr.

Craig, though greatly hampered by the faults of his

predecessor, is giving satisfaction.

8.

The vacancy in the Gaol Department,

I filled by transferring Mr. E. J. do Rozario to that

post at a salary of $50 a month. Mr. E. Rozario's work

had not been good, and though painstaking, he was not

qualified to discharge his duties in the Colonial

Secretary's Office. It was on his own request that I

authorized the transfer.

9.

In order to fill the vacancy in the

Colonial Secretary's Office, I have provisionally trans-

-ferred

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