CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8] — Page 305

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Confidential Despatch to the

Colony observed that the

same

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appointment of Unofficial

members to the Executive ~

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Council which is to associate

the Confidential and Com-

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"missioned servants of the-

"brown, who are

governed by

"strict rules and whose position

and salaries are

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-dependent_

on their good behaviour with independent. and irre- sponsible gentlemen (over whom "no control can be exercised)

is

"is

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-obviously questionable in principle and justifiable only "when the practical deficiencies

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of the constitution render this further anomaly expedient.

In April 1876 Lord

Carnarvon wrote to the Governor

of Barbados in the following terms :- Nothing could be

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more

than to

unfair or impolitic to place independent Government in this position. It must not be forgotten

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that these despatches

were

addressed