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C. That he had tried to raise unnecessary difficulties.
D. That he was not in cordial relations with the staff.
3.
As regards A Dr. Doberck informed us that on his return to the Colony he found that
(a) Owing to lack of proper precaution in shifting the rotatory roof over the equatorial telescope it (the roof) had been badly damaged by a typhoon, and that Mr. Plummer had acquiesced in the substitution of a tile roof (which was entirely unsuitable) for the former one.
(b) The transit instrument wires had been allowed to get into such a state as to render fine observations impossible.
(c) The electric batteries had never been overhauled. He (Dr. Doberck) explained that, if not regularly overhauled, the tendency was for the batteries to become weakened and impaired.
(d) The reversing galvanometer of the time ball had become corroded and had not been renewed.
(e) The anemometer at the Peak had been allowed to remain unrepaired.
(f) Weight cord of transit clock was broken and not repaired.
Mr. Plummer's reply to (a) is that he does not