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certain recommendations relative to the re-organisation of the Public Works Department,
I have the honour to draw
Your Lordship's attention to that portion of Mr. Brown's
letter which deals with the
Clerical staff of the department.
And first
regards the conduct
ad
of
the
correspondence. It is -
absolutely necessary, think, that some
I
competent
Officer
A
found
to
officer should be
the post of Correspondence "Clerk. The correspondence
fill
of the department is of.
very
extensive and
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complicated nature, involving as it does, not only the interchange of written communications with the Government, but also with 2 large section of the community. Recent legislation has had the effect of greatly
а
increasing the clerical work
of