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advisable in a Department for all the correspondence between the Government and the Head of the Department,
to pass through a person, who holds an office similar
to that of Secretary of the Board, as it is at present
constituted.
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4.
A.
What is the use of having a Secretary at all, then? As a go between for the public.
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In their ignorance, somebody writes to the President,
rather than to the Secretary?
A.
65
Q.
A.
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Not in ignorance, because some of the Members of the Board have consulted me on certain subjects, but I have not consulted the Secretary about it, because it
was a matter I considered the Secretary had nothing to
do with.
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I dont suggest you should consult the Secretary, but
you should keep him informed ↑
I was talking of information given to me from the
public, which I have communicated to the Government, I
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have done it direct, but not through the Secretary. Dont you think the Secretary, being Secretary, should
know everything that is going on ?
A. I dont think it is advisabb
that he should know
everything.
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Q.
What is the objection?
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A.
There may be certain confidential communications
between the head of the Department and the Government,
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which the Becretary should not know.
66
Q.
I could imagine a very extrema case.
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A.
The P. C. M. 0. is Administrative Head.
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But he is also a Member of the Executive Council, and
could quite understand that the Government might wish
to consult the r Member of the Council, who is a
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