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lieu the reef was conceded the grant was made retrospective as from 1st January 1913 to the subordinate officers generally,
but for some reason which Your petitioners have not been able
to ascertain no such retrospective grant was made to them.
6.
Your Petitioners have therefore in comparison with the ir colleagues been penalised to the extent of Four hundred and eighty dollars each, being sixteen months quarters allowance
at thirty dollars a month from 1st of January 1913 to 1st of
May, 1914.
7.
When Your Petitioners heard of the Petition for quarters!
Allowance in 1913 they and their colleagues wished to present
a similar petition, but they were advised by the Head of their
Department, Mr. R. O. Hutchison, that it was not necessary for
them to do so, as no doubt they would be treated on an equal
footing with other subordinate officers. Your Petitioners were
therefore surprised at being treated with discrimination.
8. Subsequently Your Petitioners repeatedly applied through
the Superintendent of Imports and Exports to the colonial
Government for retrospective quarters allowance but without
success.
9.
One of Your Petitioners' colleagues, Mr. D. J. Mackenzie,
who was not granted house allowance in the first instance, was
subsequently granted the allowance, and Your Petitioners submit
that it is most inequitable to make the grant to one and to
refuse it to other officers in the same department.
10. A similar grant was made after some delay to Mr. J.
Eldridge, Overseer in the Public Works Department, although
Junior to Your Petitioners, and similar grants were also made
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