CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11] — Page 472

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Porclosure 2. Jonelisure 3. Donclosure 4.

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201, Mr. Carter's letter of the 3rd. September in original,

with the newspaper extracts attached to it. I enclose also

copies of the questions asked in Legislative Council by

Mr. E. A. Hewett on the 28th. ultimo and of the replies

given by the Colonial Secretary.

3.

The post of Sanitary Surveyor held

by Mr. Carter was abolished because the Director of Public

Works, under whose Department the Sanitary Surveyors have

been placed, reported that only one such Surveyor was re-

-quired: and Mr. J. J. Bryan, who is the senior of the two

Surveyors (having entered Government Service as Assistant

Surveyor in June, 1897, whereas Mr. Carter entered the

Service as Sanitary Inspector in September, 1901, and was

not appointed Sanitary Surveyor until January, 1906,)

and whose training better fits him for the work to be

performed under the Public Works Department was scoordingly

retained.

4.

Mr. Carter was a zealous and

efficient Officer with an excellent training as a Sanitary

Inspector. His want of training as an Engineor renders it

impossible to find a vacancy for him in the Public Works

Department while the high salary that he enjoyed 2360 to

2420 per annum makes it extremely difficult to find en-

-ployment