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holidays included, is not the ordinary work which a Civil Servant is expected to do, and that there is no other Civil Servant who can show the same record.
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have had to attend personally, to every detail, from a Postmen's bag and rain coat, and the washing of the office, to things that fairly might be considered, as appertaining to the duties of the head of a Department. Books, registers, and every item, that goes to make up a well organised Department, I have had to start and then watch to see them, books and registers, kept up, in the face of a passive, sleepless, and stubborn resistance, to any and every innovation or departure from old custom.
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Ideas of cleanliness, subordination, and veracity, were wanting in nearly the whole of the staff, much of which has been remedied since my assumption of office.
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These are some of the difficulties I have had to face, and I very respectfully submit, are not the usual conditions one has to reckon with in taking over a new appointment.
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On the organisation of new departments, and I submit the Post Office may now practically be considered a new department, it has been customary to pay the organiser a substantial salary.
On the inception of the Imports and Exports Department some 12 or 13 years ago, the then Clerk of the Councils, who was entrusted with its organisation...
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