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present a fitting opportunity to place
on record briefly
the circumstances
relative to the work I have performed
while in the Colonial Service and
the
causes which
require my
departure for England.
In making
for leave at the
au
application
present time
when the Department has
so much
work to
carry
out with
effect, His
Excellency will, I am confident,
believe that I do so solely because I feel it is a duty I owe to myself
and though it be personal it is one which nevertheless every man who has
any regard for health
or life must be excused for the
performance of, when its neglect
has so
frequently
been attended with fatal consequences;
but in now
leaving the Department
over which I have presided, with the exception of
an
insignificant
period, for
so many years,
I may state that, I only
give up my
work upon strong remonstrances from my
Medical
advisers;
my protracted residence here has materially weakened
my constitution, as shown by repeated attacks of fever within the last two
years, and my
non
feeling of unfitness for the performance of work I formerly
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In making an application for leave at the present time when the Department has so much work to carry out with effect, His Excellency will, I am confident, believe that I do so solely because I feel it is a duty I owe to myself and though it be personal it is one which nevertheless every man who has any regard for health or life must be excused for the performance of, when its neglect has so frequently been attended with fatal consequences;
but in now leaving the Department over which I have presided, with the exception of an insignificant period, for so many years, I may state that, I only give up my work upon strong remonstrances from my Medical advisers; my protracted residence here has materially weakened my constitution, as shown by repeated attacks of fever within the last two years, and my feeling of unfitness for the performance of work I formerly
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