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arly clerk under me nor do I intend to do so. I have found
some of the clerks extremely irritating (with their errors
and irregulareties) on a mail day and have many a time been put
to a great deal of inconveŝience; but I can safely affirm that
10 one in my Department can say that I ever forgot myself so
far as to curse and swear at them? perhaps this is what I
lack as regards Command.
The incapacity the P.M.G. speaks of is hardly deserved;
when it is considered that during the two years and six months
prior to his appointment: the total loss, during the whole of
that time, was one registered letter. I would also beg to draw
your attention to the Annual Report for 1897 in which the Hon.
A.M. Thomsoni states that the Registration Department, was as
near perfection as could well be looked or words to that effect.
In the present P.M.G's report dated 13th. or 14th. April (1
believe this report was slightly revised and the date altered)
He states that he found the Registration Department in perfect
working order every man had his set share of work and knew
how to do it. This was quite correct. It is not my incapacity
that has effected such à changes. The change is entirely due
to the fact that in less than two months I lost my three
Senior clerks in their places were filled by boys with no
experience