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no opportunity of effecting "ment allowed to slip by
Retrench.
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my -
In these words are complete Justification. I want an
Enquiry. I think no Enquiry can
be properly pushed
all relevant
and
facts unless a
bring out a majority of the Committee are in fa-
of enquiry, and free from all adverse influences, or a word, un- dependent of Government, and
and again, permit me to point out that to use your without warrant in stati
phrase, you
alc
a
wholly staking, as you
any
have done, that I have, in
OV
shape form, "practically informed "The Government and the public that I had
- suggestions to make which [were feasible and would enable un- "portant reductions to be made, or "That I
apparently of opinion
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only through the instrumentality ' of a Retrenchment Committee, can "I propound these suggestions! I
have.
have said and done uo
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nothing to
justify these allegations. I and many
-
other's have alleged that retrench-
ments and economies mi
many
ways
CALL
be
suggested. This Ex-
cellency has said the same, and
porited out i
many of the
ways,
some new to w. I have never ar.
rogated to myself.
to myself the monopoly of opinion or suggestion you charge me with claiming.
said or
I have never!
thought that only through
the medium of a Committee
or other suggestions for
cald
my retrenches out be put forward, but I have said and think, and for.
tunately the Secretary of State theicks with me, that a public compre-
hensive Enquiry is the proper means of accertaining the facts about the -public service, of getting a comprehensive view of them, of record_
ing
them, and of laying the foundation for future as well as present
A
coru
miprovements