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I cannot control the subordinate staff. In doing so he adopted the orders approved by the Board, amending them afterwards as occasion required; it is absurd to think that I presented these orders to the Board for confirmation with the distinct object of slighting the Board.
Paragraph 284.
This is not in accordance with fact as each Officer or servant when appointed has a copy of the rules given to him and many of them have from time to time been punished for a breach of them.
Paragraph 285. What I tried to convey was that up to the appointment of Dr. Pearse the Medical Officer of Health was more frequently in his office but that after the appointment of the Assistant Medical Officers of Health less office work was required and therefore there was more personal out-door supervision.
Paragraph 290. During the 8 years before the appointment of the Commission three Officers of the Department were tried in the Supreme Court for corrupt practices.
Paragraph 306. I do not know what is meant by the statement that I was largely instrumental in formulating Ordinance 23 of 1903.
Shortly after my return to the Colony in 1901