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sent to the complicity of his mistress was too strong be disregarded

(~7) That the interests of the Public Service would be

seriously threatened by the ruling that, in the absence. of conclusive proof of non- complicity, a Publie officer

should not be held

ble

responsi

-actions on the part of

for a

This wife

wife or mistress calen_

lated to bring the Govern- ment into disrepute.

6.

As

you

will observe

from the foregoing remarks,

the ease rested almost entire-

ly on strong circumstantial

evidence, and was

an ex/-

one-

to

ceedingly difficult deal with. I have, however, no doubt in my

own mind

that it has been decided

with all fairness and I trust that you

in

will concur

my opinion that the Conneil has been quided

to a right decision

6.

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