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some portion of Dr. Thomson's allowance under Colonial

Office Regulation 124 when that Officer was on leave and

Ca not whilst Dr. Thomson was in the Colony. My Despatch No.

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314 of the 11th. August, 1904, and Mr. Lyttelton's Despatch

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No. 279 of the 21st. September, 1904, deal with the

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question of Dr. Koch drawing Dr. Thomson's house allowance

whilst the latter was on leave, and Your Lordship will

observe that in the 6th. paragraph of his Despatch Mr. ----

Lyttelton stated "I am not satisfied that Dr. Koch has a

"very strong claim", and proceeded to grant him some

addition to his emoluments on the ground that he had been

led to expect that he would receive some payment in con-

-sideration of the fact that he had to live in the vicinity

of the Gaol.

It appears to me therefore that

there is no analogy between the present case and Dr.

Koch's case, but that if there is an analogy Kr. Lyttel-

➡ton's opinion that Dr. Koch had not a very strong claim

implied that similar claims would not be entertained in

future. Moreover there is this difference between the two

cases that when Mr. Moore was appointed Assistant Surgeon

and assigned to Gaol duties he was not led to expect that

he

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