CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9] — Page 426

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8.

under the

very eye of the Superintendent, I exacted more attention and

deanlines ; where the stones belonging

to the Force were attended to, and

even

-allowed to rot in neglect, I sought to establish proper surveillance and individual responsibility; and lastly, where I found the effortant Supermtendents without

any specific duties, and the authority which they should have weernised virtually

handed

over to ignorant and self- sufficient men of inferior rante and expacity, Fordured such arrangements

made

were

calentated

a

well

to lighten the duties of the Captai

Superintendent,

as

to

gave

to his

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immediate subordinates that interest

and responsibility in the branches of the service respectively assigned to their care which could alone tend

to the benefit of the whole. I could enlarge upon

9.

each of there changes

ao

all and)

evidences of

glaring mal- administration, and give abundant proof of the correctness of

the statements I have made, but

object to be attained by length, and therefore I will only further observe that it was

Marve

in

-quence of this general state of disorganization and want of system and _ displine, which Mr. Creagh admitted most unreservedly alihrough

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