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3.
Besides the reasons
re.
ed so
that specially tell against- the combinations already ferred to, I think it wise that in this Colony, where health suffers from a prolonged journ, the number of officials should not be unduly reduced so that the temporary filling of vacancies caused by of- fivers, on leave of absence
may
being
be carried out without
unnecessary.
Н.
strain.
The doubling of the
duties
duties
as
of certain officials recommended by the Retrench_ ment Committee caused, it is
true, a saving at the time, but I doubt the wisdom of the economy and its reality, because it leads to applications for the appointment of deputies in the offices affected.
5.
I may add that I have
ob
come to these conclusions solely from my own independent or servation, but I find quiry that they
on en
are endorsed
by