CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12] — Page 83

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(c) deducting, on behalf of boarding house Masters, from the wages payable the amounts of loans advanced by those Masters, and receiving a commission for this assistance in recovering such advances.

5.

If further complaints concerning this Officer are received, I shall cause them to be investigated, but so long as complaints are anonymous I fear that the chances of bringing home charges of malpractice will be faint. It would be of assistance if Mr. Pugh, a copy of whose letter of the 13th of September to the Board of Trade was enclosed in Your Lordship's Despatch under acknowledgment, could be induced to give the names of Masters and Ships in support of his statements.

I have the honour to be,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's most obedient,

humble servant,

White

tel.

Governor, &c.,

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C 79 (c) deducting, on behalf of boarding house Masters, from the wages payable the amounts of loans advanced by those Masters, and receiving a commission for this assistance in recovering such advances. 5. If further complaints concerning this Officer are received, I shall cause them to be investigated, but so long as complaints are anonymous I fear that the chances of bringing home charges of malpractice will be faint. It would be of assistance if Mr. Pugh, a copy of whose letter of the 13th of September to the Board of Trade was enclosed in Your Lordship's Despatch under acknowledgment, could be induced to give the names of Masters and Ships in support of his statements. I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant, White tel. Governor, &c.,
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C 79 (c) deducting, on behalf of boarding house Masters, from the wages payable the amounts of loans advanced by those Masters, and receiving a commission for this assistance in recovering such advances. 5. If further complaints concerning this Officer are received, I shall cause them to be in- -vestigated, but so long as complaints are anonymous I fear that the chances of bringing home charges of malpractice will be faint. It would be of assistance if Mr. Pugh, a copy of whose letter of the 13th, of September to the Board of Trade was enclosed in Your Lordship's Despatch under acknowledgment, could be induced to give the names of Masters and Ships in support of his statements. I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant, White tel. Governor, &c.,
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(c) deducting, on behalf of boarding house

Masters, from the wages payable the amounts of loans

advanced by those Masters, and receiving a commission for

this assistance in recovering such advances.

5.

If further complaints concerning

this Officer are received, I shall cause them to be in-

-vestigated, but so long as complaints are anonymous I fear

that the chances of bringing home charges of malpractice

will be faint. It would be of assistance if Mr. Pugh, a

copy of whose letter of the 13th, of September to the

Board of Trade was enclosed in Your Lordship's Despatch

under acknowledgment, could be induced to give the names of

Masters and Ships in support of his statements.

I have the honour to be,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's most obedient,

humble servant,

White

tel.

Governor, &c.,

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