CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 484

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of the Department.

1. On the first day of my entering the service, that person commenced

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an

exptem of persecution towerising, consisting of constant insults, slights and felly annoyances with apumption of authority not only uncalled for but totally unwarranted by his position or profesional acquirements: - this conduct he has steadily perserved in to the present time: his alleged being that by accepting the affointment of Acting Apistant Surveyor Seneral, I had wilfully reprived him of Mt Birds half hay which otherwise he should

reason

have received.

2. In retaliation for this alleged

wrong,

he asured me shortly after entered the service, that he would

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do me all the injury in his hover", and it has since been his Leily

his threats.

endeavour to

3.

Carry

out

For a longtime I bore with his treatment, without complaint,

anxions if possible to fulfil the duties I had undertaken, but latterly his conduct has become quite unbearable and it has become ahnose- his daily custom to insult me in the presence of the junion employes of the

Department.

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