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Hon. Colonial Secretary,
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Next to the Chief Clerk the First Registra-
-tion Clerk is considered the most important member of the
clerical staff. He is designated 2nd. clerk and draws a salary
of $1,800 to $2,100 per annum which with Exchange Compensation amounts to £270 to £315. Passed Cadets draw $1,800 without
increment, or £270 per annum.
The present holder of the post, Mr. Craig
has had some experience of the office. He was placed temporarily
in charge of the Registry on 10th. March, 1901, at a salary of $60 per mensem, and later his appointment as 2nd. clerk at a salary of $1,800 to $2,100 was made retrospective from that
date. His salary with increments and Exchange Compensation at
present amounts to £288 per annum.
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He might therefore by now be reasonably
expected to have benefitted by his experience, and, if he did not originally possess the quality, to have trained himself to
carefulness. This is however not the case. As an instance of the the papers relating to Mr. Julyan's application for Ex- -change Compensation were submitted to me without a single former or precedent paper attached. I quote this as showing how little experience has done for him. As instance of his careless- -ness: when his work was taken up on his departure to the Volunteer Camp it was found that some dozen papers had been filed without being noted in the register, or had been other- -wise irregularly treated. I understand too that when Mr. Craig went on long leave in 1904 there were some fifty papers found to have been treated in this manner. It is therefore not surprising that papers frequently get mislaid and sometimes lost. And even routine correspondence is sometimes irregularly treated, as instance the return of fines inflicted on the Post Office Staff for October which the other day was attached not to
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