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Grice's explanation was unsatisfactory and imperkasa.
uneaingoctory.
This is a case where an officer wishing to employ his intelligence to help in the work of the department could easily have obtained the information he required from the district inspector. But Inspector Grice preferred to take advantage of the fact that a lane consisting of four houses only was unnumbered and to proceed with a task beyond his ability to understand.
The matter placed in his hands for dealing with, and that even after 47 days he was quite at a loss to understand what house an inspector working under him could have referred to in a report sent to him.