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Murthand the duty of dealing with the public correspondence between the Secretary of State and the Governor, due
In
Accordance with their directions contained
In his dispatch the public Dispatches between the Governor and the Secretary of State were removed from Government
of State
Store to the Colonial Secretary's
Department on
1
the 12th June 1882. Shortly after
the correspondence with the Secretary
of State had to be undertaken by me. Whilst administering the Government
and occupied a large portion of my time. There was no one in the
Colonial
The then Acting Colonial Secretary's department competent
to relieve me of the greater part of this duty except the Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. Elewart, who had no time to spare.
8. It will be seen that since
represented
in 1879 the difficulty which
I experienced in performing the combined duties of Colonial Secretary and Auditor-General, it has been proposed that
further duties should be considerably
added to, which I have been deprived
of Mr. Wakchance and the duties
of
one relieved with the removal of
Mawes.
9. There