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ment, (which includes the payment of large

Sums in a number of small Grants, and the

management of many small accounts) may be

taken as proof to the contrary. The printed

Estimates of the Education Department occupy

seven pages.

Third, as lacking the "special qualification"

of "controlling and enforcing discipline ink

large Department where organisation is essen-

tial". As regards organisation, I claim to

have re-organised the Education Department,

which is a harder mattor than to "carry on

in an office already in good working order.

The Education Office is now "a large Depart-

ment where organisation is essential".

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a Staff of 28 Europeans and 82 Chinese teachers

and clerks. It has never been said that I

was unable to maintain discipline in it. ΙΣ

however it is argued that this is not a "largo

Department", then the Colonial Secretary has

had no experience of my work in a large Depart-

ment, and should I submit KIMA¢If have content-

ed himself with saying so.

A few months later the acting appointment of

Colonial Treasurer bocane yucant. It was decided that Mr

Messer should fill it in addition to his own appointment of

Postmaster General. I thereupon addressed the following

letter to the Government, under date of 11th June, 1909.

I am aware that the filling of acting appoint-