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I assume that since he must be aware of the Colonial Regula-
-tions and was told that his case was under consideration of
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the Executive Council he would provide himself with any
necessary figures and dates on which he might rely to prove
that the responsibility laid upon him by the Regulations of the
Service had been adequately discharged.
3.
The long list given on pages 17 20 of
the Memorandum of cases which gave grounds for suspicion that
subordinates in the Harbour Office were making illicit profits,
and the fact that the investigations of the Retrenchment
Committee, and of Mr. D. Percebois' had given occasion to call
the Harbour Master's attention to this matter should have been
sufficient to induce a very special supervision on his part
for a time at any rate, in order to render it wholly impossible
for such suspicions to arise in future more especially since
paragraphs 8 and 13 of letter of 1st. June, 1911, are tant-
-amount to an admission that he had previously failed to fully
realize the openings for dishonesty whichexisted, and that
the supervision had been defective.
4.
The necessity for having one roster for
promotion throughout the Service is obvious and does not
admit of discussion, and I think that I need hardly say that
favouritism