CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]

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Confidential Despatch to the

Colony observed that the

same

appointment of Unofficial

members to the Executive

Council which is to associate

the Confidential and Com-

"missioned servants of the-

"brown, who are

governed by

"strict rules and whose position

and salaries are

# #

-dependent on their good behaviour with independent and irre-sponsible gentlemen (over whom "no control can be exercised)

is

"is

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-obviously questionable in principle and justifiable only "when the practical deficiencies

of the constitution render this further anomaly expedient.

In April 1876 Lord

Carnarvon wrote to the Governor

of Barbados in the following terms :- Nothing could be

more

than to

unfair or impolitic to place independent Government in this position. It must not be forgotten

that these despatches

were

addressed