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Yes, but dont you think it would be batter - I am

quite sure you would be quite willing to alter anything

that would be for the better administration of the

Department. Supposing the Government said to you,

without any Commission, "now Mr Wo^dcock, I want to

change the administration there. Can you suggest

anything". Would that not be one of the first things

you w`uld suggðat ↑

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Not before this afterno r.

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But now ?

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Now, yes.

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You can conceive the great langer ?

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The system will be altered tomorrow, but in Justificat-

ion of the system, I can say

It escaped you ?

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The only way such

a system could te justified is the

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fact that I do not recollect a single letter which tat

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clerk, and he has o ed all of them, which shou

not have passed through his ands.

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Bank should never have its employees guaranteed,

because they have never had a dishonest one. But dont

you think it is possible, one night turn up ↑

It is possible.

Is it not advisable that you should first read all the

correspondence, befɔre you pass it on to a junior clerk, or would you rather have it read by a junior clerk, and

then come on to you ?

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No.

You being the head of the Department, 1; i* not a

proper thing that you should read that correspondence, before you part with it to a junior alek

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