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periodical increases.
6.
I understood when my appointment was under consideration that His Excellency the Governor contemplated the salary of the office being $420 or $450 a month to begin with instead of $370. I was under the impression that this was His Excellency's recommendation to the Secretary of State. May I beg of His Excellency to submit the matter for the further consideration of the Secretary of State, and ask him in consideration of the very great increase in the work and responsibility of the Postmaster General since the present rate of pay was fixed, to increase the permanent salary to at least $450 a month and to grant me in consideration of the heavy work imposed on me in reorganising a totally disorganised department and of the restriction he now desires to place on me, and which will seriously affect my probable income, to grant me a small annual increase, during the next five years bringing the salary of the appointment up to $500 a month.
7.
This arrangement will only be just to me from a pecuniary point of view, and will save me from discredit, from the fact of my being passed over for all acting appointments.
P.S.
I have, etc.
(Sd.) Wm.C.M.Hastings,
Postmaster General.
With reference to paragraph 5, I attach details as to how the pay was made up. A statement of the pay of Postmaster General prior to 1891 and the revenue working expenses, and profit in 1891 and 1898 respectively.
(Itd.) W.C.M.H. 29.5.99
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periodical increases.
6.
I understood when my appointment was under consideration that His Excellency the Governor contemplated the salary of the office being $420 or $450 a month to begin with instead of $370. I was under the impression that this was His Excellency's recommendation to the Secretary of State. May I beg of His Excellency to submit the matter for the further consideration of the Secretary of State, and ask him in consideration of the very great increase in the work and responsibility of the Postmaster General since the present rate of pay was fixed, to increase the permanent salary to at least $450 a month and to grant me in consideration of the heavy work imposed on me in reorganising a totally disorganised department and of the restriction he now desires to place on me, and which will seriously affect my probable income, to grant me a small annual increase, during the next five years bringing the salary of the appointment up to $500 a month.
77.
This arrangement will only be just to me from
a pecuniary point of view, and will save me from discredit, from the fact of my being passed over for all acting appointments.
P.S.
I have, etc.
(Sd.) Wm.C.M.Hastings,
H
Postmaster General.
With reference to paragraph 5, I attach details
as to how the pay was made up. A statement of the pay
of Postmaster General prior to 1891 and the revenue
working expenses, and profit in 1891 and 1898 respectively.
(Itd.) W.C.M.H. 29.5.99
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