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parties,

was

thoroughly abhorrent

to the bureaucratie mind. On this

point, two members of the present

staff of the Colonial

the Colonial Office, Sir R.·

Herbert and Mr. Bramston, ean

bear

me

witness.

They

will remember

that when they

were,

in 1865, serving

under me while I was Governor of Queensland, I was

very desirous

to introduce the English system of

competitive examination into that

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Colony; but that they violently- opposed it, not on the pretext that

it was unsuited to Queensland,

but

C

but because they regarded it with

undisguised

aversion in

England

is now

and everywhere else. It is

generally agreed that this opposition

was

unfortunate in its results; and that if I had not been obstructed

in

my cherished plan of introducing competition,

On

the

ere

English model, into Queensland, that system would have been long adopted also in the neighbouring Colonies, and that the manifold evils and corruption of official

patronage, which have since

grown

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