" must.
assure you
(
how much I feel
" the loss of so thoroughly good and " useful a Principal Secretary.
24. The above facts are, I think sufficient to show that the statements referred to Mr. Johnson
in
were the Governor's own statements, repeated by
me to Mr. Johnson in pursuance of repeated and urgent instructions of the Governor who subsequently approved of my having
made them.
25. In the second instance I beg to observe that I believed
it was necessary in the Governor's
interests and my duty as his Private
Secretary to make those statements as
directed by him. Rumours were in
circulation which ascribed the treatment
the Governor had accorded to Mr. Hayllar to causes and motives injurious to the Governor's reputation and interests. When therefore the Governor repeatedly told me that he considered it necessary for his
interests to meet the rumours in circu-
lation by a true statement of the facts
he gave me, I felt the force of his argu-
ments. At the same time the view
of the duties of a Private Secretary and which I now think was a wrong one, though the Governor had often confirmed my conception of it, was such as implied
absolute subordination and absolute
identification of interests. I
felt
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" must.
assure you
(
how much I feel
" the loss of so thoroughly good and " useful a Porvale Secretary.
24. The above facts are, think sufficient to show that the statements referred to Mr. Johnson
in
were the Governor's own statements, repeated by
me to Mr. Johnson pursuance of repeated and urgent instructions of the Governor who subsequently approved of my having
made them.
25. In the second restance I beg to observe that I believed
necessary in the Governor's
it was no
as his Private
interests and my buty Secretary to make those statements as
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directed by him. Rumours were in
circulation which ascribed the treatment
the Governor had accorded to Mr. Hayllar to causes and motives injurious to the Governor's repulation and interests. When therefore the Governor repeatedly told me that be considered it necessary for his
interests to meet the rumours in circu
lation by a true statement of the facts
he gave me, I felt the force of his argu-
ments. At the same time the view
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look of the duties of a Private Secretory and which I now think was a wrong one, though the Governor had often confirmed my conception of it, was such as implied.
absolute subordination and absolute
identification of interests. I
felt
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