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change in the existing system necessary.
can very rarely hope to save
A Governor himself from
from on finding his own
much inconvenience by furniture arrived
before him - though I certainly think
he
may generally gain in a more courteous anticipation of the most
immediate and
pressing requirements of
his position, than that which I experienced.
I had done all that was
yet
was
possible and
-
exposed to unnecessary
inconvenience and to other
annoyances
which happily there are few
precedents for in the Service.
II.
in the
owing
to the
arrangement made with
my predecessor requiring him to leave
me in the house.
his furniture
Yet
that
did not suffice to prevent what was certainly both humiliating and
inconvenient, and I am
very glad
that His Majesty's Government has
turned their attention to the
of finding a remedy.
12.
in mind
necessity.
Two things have to be kept.
First of all that, if the
Governor and his Lady
are bound to
alight
in the Colonial
Government House at whatever hour of day or night they arrive.
Now all this occurred under
circumstances exceptionally fortunate
they should there find
all that is
usually required by a traveller at an
hotel. Thus for example if there
good