CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 403

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Surveyor General's nauchers

53.

"Mo" Wilson has the Custody of Come list of the fumiture and the

another, and is

of

very on all Boards for inspection

Private Secretary Properly put

anival of

a new

Governor. In the latter

fof the furnitive annually and on the

Capacity he may have had something

to do with reporting

to

CLD

state of the

furniture when I first anived, but he

is not a

person whom I would with

to have charge of it or personally surfarnice fit contrary to his

duty.

#

supervise

be

may

doing

so

therefore, that I prevented his

but I

mo

am

quite certain that I made

change whatever in the

pursued before my time.

routine

54. It is

after

my

quite true that not long

398

anival here other ciramotances

did occur. Those circumstances are

recorded and

they greatly shoot.

my

personal confidence in Mr Milson. He

was made

quite

the time, and, all

he

was

aware

of that fact at

things considered,

very leniently dealt with.

55. It is

is necessary here to explain to

what I allude not

Wilson

gives

merely because Mo?

a reason

for my want

of confidence inconsistent with the

of

the P

reality but because, despite testimony to which Mr Milson refers as to his profesional capacity I have formed a very different judgment on that head- and never entrust him

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