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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

CO. 537

Me I Ampus

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04 0.

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Jept Collyer.

204 But suppose he wants it two years afterwards? 18603 When we are instructed to keep the diaries on fil®,

but up to the present time we have done nothing of the sort, as we had no instructions. Consequently i tore

it up, because it is useless to me.

It may he useless to you, but -

But you cant blame me for doing a thing I was not instructed not to do.

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Any blame that may be attachable will be done anothér

10 time, but what I want to get at the facts of the

administration

that way,

because we know and no doubt

you are satisfied that the administration has not been satisfactory, and it is capable of improvement, and

you may be able to suggest improvements. Now, dont you think, now it is pointed out to you, that it would de

just as well if a regulation was made that a diary shoħd

be kept when it is finished with You cant hamper

your office with it, and all the diaries should be

filed in the head office.

I think it would be a splendid institution.

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If you were a clerk, and one of your duties was to keep

cashbook, you would not consider it one of your

duties to tear a cashbook up at the end of the year ?

- I hardly think I would.

Dont you think a diary is more or less on the same 80) footing ?

One does not look at it like that. You say to yourself,

the year is finished, you have filed all these papers,

and you get rid of as much staff as possible, to start. the new year.

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Supposing we were to ask you a question with regard to your diary of last year ↑

Mr Pung Wa Chun:-

08

Yr Shelton Hooper:-

date.

Supposing it was about a house you visited on a certain

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