CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7] — Page 48

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Enclosure

Hon, Colonial Secretary,

C O

21148

RECO

Reos | JUL 10,

I have read the statements taken by the

Crown Solicitor and it is perfectly clear that no criminal offence of the kind suggested by the Secretary of State has been

committed by the Inspector.

The Committee that enquired into the matter

before had substantially the whole of the evidence before them, though I notice that the present statement has been elaborated in certain details, and came to the conclusion that whatever were the immoral propositions made by the Inspector, they were not made or taken seriously. The Committee also found that the Inspector was under the influence of drink at all material times on the day in question. With these findings after study- -ing all the ovidence closely I fully, concur.

The origin of the whole trouble to me seems obvious. The unseemly behaviour of the Inspector in the evening (for which he has been punished) caused the woman to lose face with her neighbours. Hence her complaint and her not unnatural desire to make that complaint as strong as possible has led her and her husband to distort the ill-mannered, but jesting suggestions of the Inspector into serious immoral propositions.

But even assuming that the Inspector serious -ly asked the woman to come and live with him and her husband to permit it, he has committed no offence, for it is not suggested that he used any threat or fraudulent inducement or offered any payment or any other material consideration to induce man or woman to consent. It is irmoral for a man to ask any woman married or single to live with him but it is no offence against the law or any Colonial Regulation. Similarly taking the Inspector's own story, it is no offence to send a message to a prostitute to ask her to spend the night and that

is all the Inspector did.

I am strongly of opinion that the facts placed before me are not such as to justify the suspension of

the