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On the 13th April, I submitted a report on the condition of the Department, as it existed on 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, re-organise, 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 the unintelligent.
8.
It was impossible to sweep away the whole of the old machinery until fresh was available to replace it; additions could not be made without sanction from England.
9.
It resolved itself, therefore, into a question of the personal element, pending the efflux of time.
10.
The personal element I did submit, as far as it could humanly be expected, has affected radical improvements; complaints locally having almost entirely ceased.
11.
I attach a return showing the number of hours I have worked in the Post Office, and would respectfully submit that 9 to 10 hours a day, Sundays and ...
384
5
On the 13th April, I submitted in a report
on the condition of the Department, as it existed on 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 forma- tion of a new department.
7.
I had, with the old, insufficient and un- reliable material, to reform, re-organise, 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 the unintelligent.
8
It was impossible to sweep away the whole of
the old machinery, until fresh was available to replace it, additions could not be made without sanction from England.
9.
It resolved itself therefore, into a question
of the personal element, pending the efflux of time. 10.
The personal element I did, submit, as far
as it could humanly be expected, has affected radical improvements, complaints locally having almost entirely
ceased.
11
I attach a return showing the number of
hours I have worked in the Post Office, and would
respectfully submit, that 9 to 10 hours a day, Sundays
and
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