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be paid to Dr S.A.R. Laing, whose appoint-

ment was notified to you in my despatch

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No 557 of the 18th of October last. Dr Laing was appointed on a salary of

£450 rusing by triennial increments of

£35 to £620 a year with a house allowance

of. 720 a year but for the sake of

uniformity it is desirable that he should

as soon as possible be placed on the same

scale as Dr Davies and the Port Health

Officer now to be appointed. It will not

be possible to effect this for some years

without inflicting pecuniary loss on Dr

Laing but **/***] be ****\*\* ** the

change can conveniently be made at the

beginning of his tenth year of service.

Reckoning the house allowance at £70,

he will then be entitled to. receive

£590 a year including both salary and allowance,

whereas if he had been appointed on the

terus now decided upon he would have been

entitled to receive £600 a year.

He should therefore be paid during

his first nine years service at the rates

given in my despatch No 367 of the 18th

of Oct: last receiving a house allowance

of $720 a year, and from the beginning

at

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of the tenth year off the gate of 600 2

year rising by triennial increments of 94

£40 to £720 a year, the house allowance be-

ing discontinued.

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