CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12] — Page 349

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qualifications which the

clerk should

I have

and

possess, only to add that

he should be a

a man

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correspondence much time, which might with far

greater advantage have been employed

of

7.

some education and good

address.

6.

I should mention

that the want of such a

clerk has

for

a considerable

time past much obstructed the proper conduct of public works, and compelled ON Price, the late Surveyor General to devote to

correspondence

technical work

I am

on the

of his office

equally

in

agreement with Mr Brown on the subject of the necessity of procuring a trained accountant, who will have

the supervision of a storekeeper. The expenditure

bow on public

public works has become large and will continue,

suck

x

certainly

!