CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6] — Page 205

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I would point out that any officer in Great Britain who had to carry out work of a similar nature to that of which I have charge would receive at least from £800 to £1,000 per annum with superannuation equal to that existing here and he would work under far less trying conditions than is the case here.

I feel sure that under these circumstances if the Government will give the matter their further consideration they will realize that I am not being paid a salary to which my services entitle me, if however, they are still unable to comply with my request, I beg to point out that owing to the distance from England and the consequent impossibility of keeping in touch with the various lucrative appointments constantly occurring I am entirely at their mercy in this matter and I would therefore in justice ask them to use their influence with the Home Authorities to further my claim for advancement and I feel sure that my record is such when placed before them as to qualify me for any position where capability and experience are required.

I beg to suggest that it might be possible for the Colonial Office to draw the attention of the India Office...

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I would point out that any officer in Great Britain who had to carry out work of a similar nature to that of which I have charge would receive at least from £800 to £1,000 per annum with superannuation equal to that existing here and he would work under far less trying conditions than is the case here. I feel sure that under these circumstances if the Government will give the matter their further consideration they will realize that I am not being paid a salary to which my services entitle me, if however, they are still unable to comply with my request, I beg to point out that owing to the distance from England and the consequent impossibility of keeping in touch with the various lucrative appointments constantly occurring I am entirely at their mercy in this matter and I would therefore in justice ask them to use their influence with the Home Authorities to further my claim for advancement and I feel sure that my record is such when placed before them as to qualify me for any position where capability and experience are required. I beg to suggest that it might be possible for the Colonial Office to draw the attention of the India Office... Page 201 The provided response follows the instructions to output HTML using `` for paragraphs. The text has been reorganized to form coherent paragraphs, and obvious OCR errors have been corrected. The original text contained non-English characters and jumbled words, likely due to OCR errors, which have been filtered out to form sensible English text. The "Page 201" line has been preserved as it matches the page numbering format described.
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ལྔ། སྤྱོ དཱུན

taemfragen RXтoW olIdes

UtqA .293f3nod÷nok

201

a maximum of £600 after twelve years, with but little prospect

for bettering my position.

I would point out that any officer in

-12

Great Britain who had to carry out work of a similar nature to

noitrol!tne tur vet ut ueron ant VAI I

that of which I have charge would receive at least from £800 to

armidomong idiw tetanand not

£1,000 per annum with superaquation equal to that existing here

tart two thing at analbus tincus I e I

er of edeurshant vlladot Bi mefeksost won me I visies ent

and he would work under far less trying conditions than is the

case here.

.betobre BootymeZ

beteIqmcorc bas beteigrou end to taco ex

*lar bra ow? of demons @2161in you tebru noed evad notew aŹNOW

or eut OL TIES

and Jof

.anellob motllim

Beri ame etr

Woland c2 Di

93 le "ove bu

taxi roi.palloo

¢

o Tireiv na TOPW JI

ར06.

tw 9:09 0 7lets er! To vos pahani ede od antwo

bensinti Ilzar How auch 4 2001 bne SOBI sco" ed animark

ri Mooloo So I ta anstepoos feuvon no bre dintrbh tuode

IBNE, MYOR 976 VISE a dr

$

.aninom orit

of IT 038, Uro of admon won Quivrea quoitneteanoo be

I feel sure that under these circumstances

if the Government will give the matter their further consider-

-ation they will realize that I am not being paid a salary to

which my services entitle me, if however, they are still un-

-able to comply with my request, I beg to point out that owing

to the distance from England and the consequent impossibility

of keeping in touch with the various lucrative appointments

constantly occurring I am entirely at their mercy in this

matter and I would therefore in justice ask them to use their

influence with the Home Authorities to further my claim for

advancement and I feel sure that my record is such when placed

before then as to qualify me for any position where capability

and experience are required.

I beg to suggest that it might be possible

for the Colonial Office to draw the attention of the India

office,

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