CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11] — Page 400

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OBSERVATIONS

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On the Report by Messrs: Osborne and Messer on Harbour of NOV 10

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The report deals, inter alia, with matters of which

neither of these gentlemen have any previous knowledge, and the opportunities they have had of acquiring any insight into such matters have been of the slightest. In other matters, general- -ly, I agree with the report.

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The small value of cursory inspections, such as that by these gentlemen was, was well demonstrated in the matter of the duties of the Telegraph Clerks in this Department, which were pronounced by the inspecting officers to be very slight. Subsequent enquiry led to a recommendation by the Public Works advocating a separate telephone line for the Imports and Exporte Office, on the grounds that the work pas more than the clerks could perforu.

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Question 1 (a). There is no "Ceneral Office" in this Depart.ont, ond

I cannot agree that it is possible to perfore the work with a taller staff.

Anection 2. I consider it absolutely necessary that thors should b į

rugponsill, Europom clerk in the Junk Cffice. There is quite sufficient work to occupy his whole time. I also consider it

essential that there should be a European clerk as Magistrate's clerk, &c:, to deal with the many Europeans frequently heads of mercantile firms who have to come there for purposes of Reg- -istration, Emigration, &c:, and to supervise the work of this office, where a considerable number of small sums of money are con

-tantly received by a clerk who has (rightly or wrongly) been sus-

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