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if possible, for his transfer to another Colony:.
He must not expect that I shall possibly build up a case for his transfer which will mean promotion, but, I trust that elsewhere and in the discharge of other duties he will gain the confidence of the Government under which he serves, and thus make a claim to promotion hereafter.
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but Mr. Wodehouse and Mr. May must also be censured, though less severely for their respective shares in the responsibility for what happened, I am glad, however, to add that I regard the blame which attaches to Mr. May as comparatively slight, and I recognise that he showed zeal and capacity in other respects during his short tenure of the office of Treasurer.
8. As regards Mr. Nicolle's the Auditor I shall not anticipate the judgment of the Comptroller and Auditor General upon his share in the matter. It must, however, be recognised that his position was a difficult one, and that as a new comer to the Colony, called upon to introduce and carry out a system to which there was strong local hostility, it was intelligible that he should ...