CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9] — Page 483

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described my duties, as being those of the reorganisation "of a totally disorganised department".

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On the 13th April, I submitted in a report on the condition of the Department, as it existed in March last, suggestions which have been unreservedly accepted by the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, with effect from the 1st of January next.

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It is clear, therefore, that the duties of the Office to which I have been appointed, are of no ordinary nature, harder even than those of the formation of a new department.

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I had, with the old, insufficient and unreliable material, to reform, reorganise, and rehabilitate, a department exposed more than any other in the public service, to the keenest criticism, alike, from the educated and the uneducated, the intelligent and unintelligent.

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480 described my duties, as being those of the reorganisation "of a totally disorganised department". 5 On the 13th April, I submitted in a report on the condition of the Department, as it existed in March last, suggestions which have been unreservedly accepted by the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, with effect from the 1st of January next. 6. It is clear, therefore, that the duties of the Office to which I have been appointed, are of no ordinary nature, harder even than those of the formation of a new department. 7. I had, with the old, insufficient and unreliable material, to reform, reorganise, and rehabilitate, a department exposed more than any other in the public service, to the keenest criticism, alike, from the educated and the uneducated, the intelligent and unintelligent. 8.
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480 described my duties, as being those of the reorganisation "of a totally disorganised department". 5 On the 13th.. April, I submitted in a report on the condition of the Department, as it existed in March last, suggestions which have been unreservedly accepted, by the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, with effect from the 1st. of January next. 6. It is clear, therefore, that the duties of the Office to which I have been appointed, are of no ordinary nature, harder even than those of the formation of a new department. 7. I had, with the old, insufficient and un- reliable material, to reform, reorganise, and rehabilitate, a department exposed more than any other in the public service, to the keenest criticism, alike, from the educated and the un- educated, the intelligent and unintelligent. 8.
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480

described my duties, as being those of the reorganisation "of a

totally disorganised department".

5

On the 13th.. April, I submitted in a report

on the condition of the Department, as it existed in March last,

suggestions which have been unreservedly accepted, by the Right

Honourable the Secretary of State, with effect from the 1st.

of January next.

6.

It is clear, therefore, that the duties of

the Office to which I have been appointed, are of no ordinary

nature, harder even than those of the formation of a new

department.

7.

I had, with the old, insufficient and un-

reliable material, to reform, reorganise, and rehabilitate, a

department exposed more than any other in the public service,

to the keenest criticism, alike, from the educated and the un-

educated, the intelligent and unintelligent.

8.

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