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Tratman (according to Gordon) characterized as a good idea. Mr. Tratman is now on leave.
(B). On the other hand there is no record to be found in any
Covernment papers (so far as your Committee can ascertain) of any such permit having been granted. There is a record in the Police Report of 29th. July, 1908, that a matshod belonging to Sergeant Gordon on the hill be- -hind the village was blown away: but this would not convey to anyone any clear information that the Sergeant live in it Away from the Station.
But your Committee does not think it is at all unlikely that no record was kept of this very informal and petty affair: no fee was paid and the transaction would require no booking: no permanent structure was to be erected and no definite on- -croachment apprehended.
(C). But what your Comittee does wish to draw attention to is
that both these officers explicitly say that they asked for permission for their wives and fauilios not for the solves. It is true that they both also say that they understood that they themselves (us Officers of the Police) were included in the permit: Sergeant Angus says:-
"I sent in an application....for permission to erect a mat- *-shed for my wife and family to live in during the summer
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*months. I slept in the matshed through three summers... .I "took it that I had permission to do so.”
Inspector Gordon says "I knew that Sergeant Angus had per- *-mission....I told ar. Tretman that I was going to repair "the matshed and put my wife and family there in the hot "weather....I took it that the permission extended to pa. "I did not ask for special permission for myself to be "absent from the quarters in the station".
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