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H.E. the Governor decided to consider the application

on the principle that "the salary of a post has to be con- "sidered independently of the claims of the officer who holds

"the post for the time being."

After consideration he decided that he could not recom–

mend an increase to the salary attached to the post. On the

other hand he considered that, in my application for an in-

orease to £720 per annum, there was what he described as a

"strong case" for a personal pensionable allowance, and I am

fully convinced that if the point should be referred to him

it would be found that, in making his recommendation in his

despatch No.59 of 21st February 1911, he intended that I

should receive £70 per annum as from 1st January 1912 and a

further increment of £50 per annum from 1st January 1915, if

up to that time no equivalent promotion had been given to me,

in which case the second increment would have been unnecessary.

I submit that the utmost that can be said of the words "he

"could apply for an increment* in his despatch is that they

tend to introduce ambiguity, but when read with the full de-

spatch the spirit and intention of E.B's recommendation is

undoubted, his aim being to secure for me a pensionable mini-

mum of £720 per anmm on retiring from the Service. That

such was his intention I hardly think can be doubted when it

is observed that he specifically emphasises the point by the

words "bringing his pensionable salary up to a maximum of

"2720 per armun“. I submit that he had it clearly in his

mind that if I did not receive promotion in the interim to

another post carrying a salary of not less than £720 per

annum, I should be given in lieu thereof the maximum penson-

able allowance of £120 per ammum. His specific references

both to the maximum of £720 and to the 3 years' period were

based on "personal" grounds existing in 1911, and chamcter-

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