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I keep a number
of accounts of the varied
office, with the necessary regularity and
accuracy. If His Excellency the Governor
will permit me, which I ask with extreme deference
I must pray for the removal of
Mr. Barff, I also pray for the appointment of some qualified accountant, to undertake the duty he has hitherto fulfilled, or to be relieved from responsibility in the event of any irregularity being hereafter discovered. I must also ask-
that the duties be defined, as well as the
duties of those officers who are to assist me,
and the extent to which I am to control
them. I am
very unwilling to raise any
difficulties and would gladly be relieved from
the position for which my previous training and experience have in no way fitted me, further than to give me a keen appreciation of the dangers which attend the conduct of an office without a competent staff, but while I hold the office with which Her Majesty's Government has entrusted me I must take that course
which my judgment dictates as the proper course and place upon record my objections, and protests as they occur.
(Signed) Hr Fred Gibbons Registrar