Obeying orders.
And hinted that he saw no way of meeting the exigencies of the case, essentially the downright disobedience in certain instances.
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It will be sufficient to state the specific charges founded in the report referred to. Parsons was called upon to explain the charges founded thereon and warned that an Executive Council might consider the propriety of removing him.
The state of the Secretariat was in almost every respect unsatisfactory. Mr. Moorsom went into particulars here.
They were:
1: A long continued and wilful disobedience of important orders given for the regular performance of the forms required. You were ordered to fill in certain columns for clarification of the accounts, suggesting a cash ensuring system.
2. You are charged with wilful and literal disobedience...