CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4] — Page 249

6.

0

جر

247

report contained in it reflections

insinuations

upon

the conductor

or

Y

proceedings of the Heads of other Department's which ought if made at all to have been communicated ti

Government from time to time in separate Despatches during the Corral

and not kept

of the previous year

for

over

an annual report - To have publish

the Report without the

Answers

which

all officers impugned are entitled to mod would have been unfair, to have pubion

it with them would have been unseemly. Such

a Course would simply

have

tended to rekindle the still smouldering. embers of the departmental diccords - which made the bolony a few years. ago 20 disgracefully notorions- a real which would be pleasing

no doubtle

a number of persons, but not advantage

to the Public service.

in

my

The Report for 1861 is at present

me to The

hands. It will with the Correspondence which has resulted. from it be forwarded by Secretary of State in due course. Bal I have had to send nearly the whole of it to the different Departiments reflected upon therein, and although some

of the Complaints and recommendations ar reasonable I consider the ought to hav singly in separate

been brought before

me

Despatches during the course of the

past year

and not have been reserved

to swell an annual Report. For the

Same reasons

therefore as those

given

with reference to the Report

to the Report for 1860 I

consider that it would not be desirable

to finblish the Report for 1861 in its present shape.

Kenner Glo Molinom

31th Meucche 18802

་

E

P