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however suggest that considerable advantage both to the junior

memuors

of the service and to the Government would be derived

by authorizing the Governor at the request of an officer due

for leave to commute a period of half-pay leave into half the

period of full pay leave. The junior members of the service

who now find their leave pay inadequate to meet the cost of

passages to and from England and of their maintenance while

there, would probably gladly give up a portion of their leave

in order to receive more pay during the remainder of it, while

the Government would gain by the shortened absence of such

officers from their work, and though it devolves upon the

Government to make up the difference to the acting officer, the

cost would be small, and more than covered by the increased

efficiency of the service.

Ly proposels are set out in a draft

General Order a copy of which is attached. If they are approved

it will be open for present officers to avail themselves of

them at any time and as it would be in the Governor's dis-

-cretion to grant or refuse a comutation of leave, under no

circumstances will the Government suffer by allowing this

liberty. It is believed that the proposed rules will work

satisfactorily; officers who desire long leave will be able to

obtain