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No

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I think not.

What correspondance do you think should not go to the 6353

Secretary I may say that looking at it from a

business point of view, as we do in a big public

Company, the Secretary is looked upon as the one

channel through which everything is supposed to go.

The Secretary, I take it, is the medium between the

public and the Board.

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Not the medium hatweon the public and the Department ?

No.

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So you think it is quite competent for the President,

for the P. C. M. 0. to carry on correspondence with the

individual members of the public, without the Secretary

knowing anything about it ?

A.

Yes.

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Without his being advisad ?

A.

Тев.

Is Buch a thing done, do you know ?

A.

Yes.

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On matters of importance, or of no importance ?

I cant remember the exact details, but Kembers of the

Board and the public have complained personally to me of

certain things that have happened. I have comunicated

to the Government, but I have not done it through tha

Secretary.

Dont you think everybody is mortal ?

YOB.

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to be removed. Dont you think it is a good thing that

the Secretary should have a knowledge or all these

matters in his absenca ↑

There would be somebody acting for the President,

independant of the Secretary. I dont think it is

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