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*sufficient) we should simply add one more to the (I am "sorry to say) too long list of public servants who have "come out here to find that they have been deluded, and "whose paramount anxiety, from the time they make that

discovery, is how to obtain from the Government the bare "means of living and of keeping out of debt. In relation "to such cases an ounce oi prevention is worth a pound

*of cure".

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We also beg most respectfully to quote an extract from a minute dated the 22nd November, 1889 written by the late Sir G. William Des Voeux, who was the Governor

of the Colony at the time.

I II I "But as regarde (1) the Local Auditor, I agree "with är. Lister that a salary of $3,000 to $3,500 is not "nearly suliicient, as such an officer should in my

"opinion be one of the highest in the Government". x x x I.

7. We respectfully believe that the correspondence which

contained the extracts we have quoted in the two preceed-

ing paragraphs was laid before the Legislative Council.

8. We most respectfully, after having endeavoured to

point out that, since the inauguration of the present

system of audit, the post of Auditor has always been

recognized as one of consideraole importance, submit that

the salary as now provided appears to us to be very in-

adequate when taken into consideration with the salaries

which have recently been approved for other Heads of

Departments and officials in the Colony.

For instance a