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British Seamen",etc.
The appointment of Mr Watson was ro-
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commended to the Secretary of State in Sir P.~.Lugard's des- 128 1969 patch No 202 of the 3rd August, 1907, and was approved by Lord
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Elgin in a despatch dated the lat May 1908 (0.8.0. 1378/07).
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Mr Watson died of malarial fevor on the 31st August 1909:
and Commander Taylor writes in paragraph 10 of his letter of
was succeeded, again in
the 1st June 1911: - "This officer..
spite of my protests, by a man whom no other department would
have, who had no knowledge of the work, and would not listen
to advice. I made several representations as to his unsuitability
for the post, but without avail". The fact is that Mr R.H.A.
Craig, who had been one of the 15 applicants for the post when
vacated by Mr Guterres, was appointed by Sir F.D.Lugard on the
lath September, 1909 to fill the post upon probation. The Acting
Harbour Master, Commander Beckwith, did not protest against or
object to the appointment: (C.5.0. 1378/07). dr Vraig joined
the service in 1897 as Clerk in the Prison Department, of which
his father is Assistant Superintendent. He was promoted on
to
10.5.01 to be Second Clark in the Colonial Decretary's office, and
transferred on the lat July 1907 to act as Principal Clerk in the
Sanitary Department, ,where he remained until that post was retrench-
ed. No complaint against är vraig's work was received until on
1.12.09 the Harbour Master was requested to report of his offi-
ciency with a view to his confirmation in his post. Commander
Taylor replied: "Mr Craig, during the seven weeks he has been
under my orders, seems to me to be strictly honest, and to be
doing his best. But he is not a trained accountant (or at any
rate he is not a capable accountant), a qualification which is
essential for this post. He also appears to me somewhat stubborn,
in so much that he prefers to go his own way, instead of taking
advice from those familiar with the work, which le now to him".
Subsequently, on Sir F.H.May's recommendation, ir A.4.Thomson,
Colonial Treasurer, and Mr Messer, Postmaster General, were ap-
pointed to make an examination of Mr Craig's accounting work and to
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