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"fitted to return to a scholastic life". Accordingly, I caused Mr. Woodcock to be examined by a Medical Board consisting of the Acting Principal Civil Medical Officer and the Acting Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital who reported on the 10th instant that "his condition (as regards deafness) does not at present render him unfit for scholastic work". I may add that Mr. Woodcock has only had one day's sick leave since the beginning of 1907: and I attach the record of sick leave taken by him since 1901.
5. In view of these circumstances and in view further of the fact that it is not proposed to abolish the post of Secretary of the Sanitary Board, but only to reduce the salary attaching to it, I cannot see that it is a hardship to Mr. Woodcock that he should be transferred from the Sanitary Department to a post in the Department, in which he originally accepted employment under the Colonial Government, at the same salary as he enjoyed while Secretary of the Sanitary Board and I conceive that the only valid objection to making the transfer is the possibility that Mr. Woodcock may not prove to have the necessary qualifications and ability to fill the post of Second Master at the College or to act for the Headmaster in