CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9] — Page 250

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the slight to engulf only too obviously involved in the proposed rearrangement of the duties

attached to

ary

duties 20 long

office without reference to me,

but I did venture to call attention to

my

labours in the direction of sanitary reform

affording strong reason for conferring

as a

the new post.

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3. The reply I received I am under the paine- ful necessity of transcribing at length and ap. pending hereto (letter B)

4.

Row

letter are

but if they

aney

Lord the charges made in this

very grave).

outs.

If they

caw

be

substantiated I am not fit for my office; are unfounded, the placing of thear on record is an act of deplorable injustice.

5 : The accusations are framed.

: framed in euch

your

Điệ

..

Lordship that I cannot even.

cojecture in• what particulars I have failed in the dur

performance of my official duties, or why I should be placed under

-placed under a censure conched in

language to uncompromising.

6. On some

I canitary matters my professional opinion, founded as it has always been on the best scientific authorities open to me, has, I have reason to be aware; at times clacked with

views formed by His Excellency on the came subjects, but any

any incanitary

may

conditions that

have existed in the Garb or in other

Government buildings have unhappily

terms; they

Cove

if not the whole,

20

5 general many of

7.

my official acto and so much of my officiat life, that I cannot pretend to meet them

as

they

stand, I can do

more than assure

your

bew

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brought about by the neglect of, and not by following the precautions I have advised.

This however is not the place for one), could I venture to take up

Lordship. time by a defence of the policy. I have seuraved in canitary matters since. I took up my office in this Colony; it is exfficient to say

your

that

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