The Treasury,
Melbourne, 30th October, 1894.
(Copy)
(Circular)
No 8225
Sir,
I am directed to inform you that it has been determined that Salaries and Wages for the current month shall be paid on the same basis as were those for the preceding months of this financial year, until Parliament shall have adopted the Treasurer's Estimates which, you are aware, have been framed upon the existing law.1
I have the honour to be,
&c.
H. F. Eaton,
Under Treasurer.
The Under Secretary.
Forwarded for the information and guidance of the [...]2
The estimates, ordered to be printed on 31 October 1894, were not passed until 22 January 1895 (Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, Session 1894-5, vol. 1, pp. 124ff).
Space left empty for title of the sub-department head to be entered. The covering note is unsigned but the document would have been sent by Topp as Under Secretary.
Copies of Eaton's letter to Topp were sent by the latter to the heads of the various sub-departments within the Chief Secretary's Department. The covering note is undated but the index of outward correspondence gives the date as 31 October.
Please cite as “FVM-94-10-31,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on