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certain recommendations relative to the re-organisation of the Public Works Department,

I have the honour to draw

Your Lordship's attention to that portion of Mr. Brown's

letter which deals with the

Clerical staff of the department.

And first

regards the conduct

ad

of

the

correspondence. It is -

absolutely necessary, think, that some

I

competent

Officer

A

found

to

officer should be

the post of Correspondence "Clerk. The correspondence

fill

of the department is of.

very

extensive and

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complicated nature, involving as it does, not only the interchange of written communications with the Government, but also with 2 large section of the community. Recent legislation has had the effect of greatly

а

increasing the clerical work

of