future conduct.
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The General Officer Commanding desires, in view
of the Chief Justice's recommendation and other circumstan-ces, to modify his written opinion which recommended a per-
manent reduction on salary by
1/6th.
He advises that the reduction should
take effect for one year
only and be thereafter remitted if their conduct be uni-
formly good in the interval.
His Excellency the Officer Administering the Go-
vernment, after duly considering the above advice, records
the following Minute and order: -
"I concur with the Council who consider, with
the exception of the Acting Registrar General, that the
case can be adequately met without resorting to the extreme
measure of suspension. I regret however that I cannot con-
cur in the opinion expressed by the majority of the Members
that it will be sufficient to impose a fine equivalent to the reduction of the officers' salaries by 1/6th
for one year, coupled with a warning as to their future
conduct, and to order no further penalty if they give no
further cause for complaint. I not only consider that the
charges which have been established are of a grave character
but I think it is quite clear from the circumstances and
from the defences made by the officers that each of them in
doing what he did was perfectly aware that he was doing
wrong. In these circumstances, with every desire to give
full weight to the advice of the majority of the Members of
the Council and to the recommendations of the Chief Justice
that the officers in question might, if they failed to ex-
piate...