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It is quite out of the ques-
-pected of questionable practises.
-tion for one man to perform the duties of both of these posts,
as is shown only too weel now, when one of them is at home, on
leave.
Question 3. (Para: 9.) I fear I cannot agree. The majority of the
clerks in the Department are as prompt and zealous about their
work as it is possible for Chinese to be, and are always at work
until well after closing time. I am continually going round
the building, and seldom or never find a clerk idle; on the rare occasions on which I have so found one, I have had no difficulty in finding something for him to do. Fr Percebois states that this is not so, but his statements with regard to this Department are unreliable. As to other Departments, I can only speak to the Colonial Secretary's Office, whence I have never been able to get a reply to a telephone call after 4.50 p.m., so that I am not able to communicate with my Out Stations after that hour.
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(Para: 10). Here again, I cannot agree. Mr Percebois makes statements and inuendoes which are absolutely false. The only part of the paragraph which has a grain of truth in it is where he states that "the clerks arrive late", and even this is a gross exaggeration. By reference to the attendance book, which, whatever Messrs: Osborne and Messer may say, I find most useful and reliable, if properly attended to, as it is here, I find that twelve individual clerks (some of whom have now left the Dep- -artment) have arrived late o various occasions since March 1st, the date upon which the book now in use was begun; the time lost has averaged 10.5 seconds per man per day. From the same book I find that the time gained to the Government by the staff remaining after 5 p.m., has averaged 14.7 minutes per man per day.
(Paras: 12 - 13). I do not think this is so.
Hessrs: Osborne
and Messer base their opinions on their own observations, which con- -sisted in counting the money collected by the shroffs in the Junk Office one morning, and observing the proportion of supsidiary coin