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vice Mr.W.G.Phillipps resigned.

2.

Mr. Gutierrez first

entered the publie

service

in 1882, when he

this Colony in 1882,

of

was

appointed to a temporary olerkship

in the Public Works Department. In

transferred to the

1883 he was

Department of the Colonial. Secretary,

where he

has acted as

a temporary oleck up to the present time. The following Memorandum from the Assistant Colonial

cal Secretary (W. Stewart Lockhart), testifies to the satisfactory

manner in which

Me

Mr Gutierrez has discharged

official duties:-

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his.

"I have always found M. Gutierrez

intelligent and most diligent in the

If

discharge of his official duties, and have never met a more

willing.

worker both in and out of office "hours. He is well acquainted with

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both the General and Despatch

branches of this

A

Office, and would,

feel certain, make a very efficient

Fourth Clerk.

I have the honour to be,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble servant,

Bower

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