CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8] — Page 563

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no opportunity of effecting "ment allowed to slip by

Retrench.

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my -

In these words are complete Justification. I want an

Enquiry. I think no Enquiry can

be properly pushed

all relevant

and

facts unless a

bring out a majority of the Committee are in fa-

of enquiry, and free from all adverse influences, or a word, un- dependent of Government, and

and again, permit me to point out that to use your without warrant in stati

phrase, you

alc

a

wholly staking, as you

any

have done, that I have, in

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shape form, "practically informed "The Government and the public that I had

- suggestions to make which [were feasible and would enable un- "portant reductions to be made, or "That I

apparently of opinion

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atin

only through the instrumentality ' of a Retrenchment Committee, can "I propound these suggestions! I

have.

have said and done uo

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nothing to

justify these allegations. I and many

-

other's have alleged that retrench-

ments and economies mi

many

ways

CALL

be

suggested. This Ex-

cellency has said the same, and

porited out i

many of the

ways,

some new to w. I have never ar.

rogated to myself.

to myself the monopoly of opinion or suggestion you charge me with claiming.

said or

I have never!

thought that only through

the medium of a Committee

or other suggestions for

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my retrenches out be put forward, but I have said and think, and for.

tunately the Secretary of State theicks with me, that a public compre-

hensive Enquiry is the proper means of accertaining the facts about the -public service, of getting a comprehensive view of them, of record_

ing

them, and of laying the foundation for future as well as present

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