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Sir,
With reference to the Confidential Despatches
Covernor's Confidential Despatch
of 13th. June, 1913.
noted in the margin, I have the honour
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Becretary of State's Confidential
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transmit a letter addressed to you
Despatch of 16th. July, 1913. by lessrs. Farrell, Edwards, Lackay and
Kynoch, First Class Overseers in the
Public Works Department, in which they ask that they may be grant- -ed house-allowances, although possessing houses of their om. 2318313
When I made the recommendation in paragraph 2
2.
of my Despatch of the 13th. of June last, it was not my intention that the allowance should be paid to those officers, who had houses of their own, but provision has been made in the Estimates for allowances to all Overseers and Sunitary Inspectors, with the exception of two, who have Government Quarters. It was obviously necessary to make such provision, as at any time it is open to
officers who own houses in which they live to divest themselves of
their houses, and apply for inclusion in the scheme for providing
free quarters and for the grant of an allowance pending their
construction. I have already infor.ed the memorialists that in the
event of their doing tuin, I am prepared to recommend such applica- -tions for your approval.
3.
I am unable to recomend that officers who have built houses, or acquired houses, to live in themselves should be
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEIS HARCOURT, L.P.,
&C..
&c.
granted
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