CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7] — Page 22

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very onerous and responsible duties, I am not placed on the same footing as regards salary, as clerks of about corresponding rank in the Colonial Secretary's Office. Even the 5th. Clerk in that depart- ment is placed in a better pecuniary position than I

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post of 3rd.; Clerkship in this office is placed on a level with the 5th, and 7th. Clerkships in the Colonial Secretary's Office, in the classification.

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I beg also to point out that the Accountant in the General Post Office is placid in Class II with a salary of $130 rising to $200 per mensen, and the Honourable F. LI May, in a minute published in the Gazette, stated that for an ac- countant he considered that salary by no means too high. Though I am practically an accountant, and in a more important department, I am placed two classes below with a material difference of $75 per month between the maximum salaries.'

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In view of these facts, I beg ras-

pectfully to solicit your kind support to my application that I may be placed in Class IIT, for which I shall be under a deep debt of

gratitude to you.

I have etc.):

(sa.) J. Pestonjee.