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SIR JAMES MASTERTON SMITH.
thing.
I am not prepared to go on defending this
Ask that all these questions should be put
off for a week in order that I may make a comprehensive
reply after receiving full reports I am calling for.
Put to the Governor my intention to state that no compulsion of any kind will be allowed to prevent
these persons from freely quitting their employment
at any time they like.
I do not care a rap what the local consequen-
ces are. I am not going on defending it. You had
better make it perfectly clear.
me.
21/2/22.
Un Beckett
Sif. Grundle
I have asked for the 2qme to be feet off fr
week. Well or plean.
refend
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