CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5] — Page 229

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7. It is also highly inexpedient when he sets the Executive at defiance that he should be allowed to do so with impunity as appears from your own statement to have been the position of affairs during my absence.

9. His recent disobedience of a positive order to give again much useful information seems wholly inexcusable - and his reason, C.S.O. N 185, that part of the repairs to Government House had not been included in some former Estimate to which he alludes of the 6th February last year, seems no reason at all. I have called on him to state when one of nearly completed repairs, Kurving them to have been of a trivial nature during 1887, was very useful and I asked him to give this information apart from details of other Buildings.

10. He has three several times declined doing so and persists in mixing up Expenditure on Government House with that on other Buildings &c. I look on it as most dangerous, especially when the sums in question are so large - a large sum General is mixed up in the outlay to allow the Surveyor

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7. It is also highly inexpedient when he sets the Executive at defiance that he should be allowed to do so with impunity as appears from your own statement to have been the position of affairs during my absence. 9. His recent disobedience of a positive order to give again much useful information seems wholly inexcusable - and his reason, C.S.O. N 185, that part of the repairs to Government House had not been included in some former Estimate to which he alludes of the 6th February last year, seems no reason at all. I have called on him to state when one of nearly completed repairs, Kurving them to have been of a trivial nature during 1887, was very useful and I asked him to give this information apart from details of other Buildings. 10. He has three several times declined doing so and persists in mixing up Expenditure on Government House with that on other Buildings &c. I look on it as most dangerous, especially when the sums in question are so large - a large sum General is mixed up in the outlay to allow the Surveyor
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