4617 should be directed to return to his regular duty. This, as I already explained, could have been done any day by departmental order of the Head of the Police. As Mr. Orley had not been suspended by the Executive Council, I made no special report of his case at the time.
Mr. Orley immediately afterwards resigned, and asked for a pension calculated on 20 years service, although his service entitled him to reckon 19 years only.
The Executive Council, taking into consideration an injury that he had sustained in the Fire Brigade in 1882, granted his request.
I submit, therefore, that on the whole, Mr. Orley has been very liberally dealt with. Instead of any reduction being made in the amount of his pension on account of unsatisfactory conduct during the last 12 months, he had a year...