10
//
509
to
sent to the complicity of his mistress was too strong be disregarded
(~7) That the interests of the Public Service would be
seriously threatened by the ruling that, in the absence. of conclusive proof of non- complicity, a Publie officer
should not be held
ble
responsi
-actions on the part of
for a
This wife
wife or mistress calen_
lated to bring the Govern- ment into disrepute.
6.
As
you
will observe
from the foregoing remarks,
the ease rested almost entire-
ly on strong circumstantial
evidence, and was
an ex/-
one-
to
ceedingly difficult deal with. I have, however, no doubt in my
own mind
that it has been decided
with all fairness and I trust that you
in
will concur
my opinion that the Conneil has been quided
to a right decision
6.
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