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system of
examination adapted to a
much broader construction.
Captain Thomsett appears to
think that the Governor's instructions conveyed to him in July upon some view of the law expressed
by
me, and further contrasting the
spirit of
those instructions with an
opinion given
by me recently on
the
case of Eve Ward's emigration scheme
that
suggests ...
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I ... there has been some
misapprehension of my views as to what is and
what is not a Contract of service.
I cannot say
how much
of
what I have at various times written on the subject
has been communicated
to Captain Thomsett
in connexion
or in what form
my opinions
have
been presented to him but he is under some misapprehension ...
4-7/
The instructions given to him July 1870 were not
founded upon my view of the law expressed by me and I have not changed
my
views as to what is and what is not a contract
of service as
what I have written will
no doubt show.
Captain Thomsett is right in
thinking that there is a
difference between In Phillippa's opinion and
mine on a
contract of service but it is
hard to
gather
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