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yourself to so harsh a judgment had
mag
case been submitted to your
Excellency
*
I fully expected it
would be, but it appears that the
Colonial Secretary, for what reason
I am at
a loss to
understand, has
seen fit to paint
my
conduct in the
most lurid colours it is capable of
assuming
and S
av
therefore
:
confidence, states that it considers
me to blame in not having insisted
the 1890 Rent Roll being balanced.
within reasonable time, and
that
it considers that ordinary supervision
would have detected the receipt of
Crown Rent's by Alves.
With regard to the former I have
frankly acknowledged that I ought
not to have accepted Alves plea of
overwork but insisted
on his book
being promptly balanced.
reluctantly compelled to enter on
my own defence.
The report of the Commission which,
consisting
as it did of
a banker
of long standing, a gentleman
accustomed to audit accounts, and
The puisne judge.
is I think
entitled to your Excellency's
My only
excuse
is that I
(new to the work
I was)
did not
confidence...
the local Auditor did
not appear to regard it as important;
so