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1887, Assistant Colonial Secretary January 1391. (In addition to doing the work of Assistant Colonial Secretary, I was

Private Secretary to the Governor and in his absence to the Officers Administering the Government, Sir F.Fleming and Major- General Barker from April 1889 to December 1891) Acting Colonial Treasurer, April to October 1892.Captain Superin- tendent of Police, 1895,-(with which office that of Superin- tendent of the Fire Brigade was amalgamated in June 1895 and that of Superintendent of the Victoria Gaol in May 1897)

The Captain Superintendent of Police is

ex-officio a member of the Sanitary Board and in June 1893

I was appointed Vice President of the Board.

I acted as President of the Board from

· November. 1893 to September 1894 during the absence on leave

of Mr.F.A.Cooper and again under similar circumstances in 1897.

At the present time. I am Acting as Colonial

Secretary and Registrar General.

I can thus claim to have presided over no less

than seven different Departments under this Government,

counting as separate Departments, the Fire Brigade and the

Gaol, which they were before their amalgamation under' me

with the Police Department.

Moreover my work as Captain Superintendent

of Police has brought me into such close touch with the

Magistracy that I may claim to be not unfamiliar with the

duties that a Magistrate has to discharge.

From the above, record it will be seen that

I have had exceptional opportunities of gaining experience

of the work of the Majority of the large Departments under

the dovernment of a Crown Colony.

When