CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11] — Page 407

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-ony, resulting from the enquiries from home. This year, to date, 92 letters have been received from places outsid ethe Cobony, and these have entailed perhaps as many again local notes and letters, besides enquiries by telephone and personally. Besides this, I

au engaged in compiling a local Trade Directory, for the use of the Commercial Intelligence Branch, Board of Trade.

Para: 4. It is very easy to add a few more forms, if it is considered

desirable. Personally, I am rather in favour of decreasing the number, if possible. In these particular cases, I do not see any advantage in multiplication of forms. These (Nos #115 & H117)

are sent out as bills, and paid by checque, (except when the Waster

of a ship pays his Light Duss personally in this office). No ship- -ping firm is going to pay more than they owe, and no clerk is going to enter less than he has got to collect, so that I do not see where there is any opening for discrepancy.

Further on in this paragraph, the question of supervision is entered into, a matter into which I have gone exhaustively above. Para: 5. This is a statement of opinion, founded on insufficient data, with which I cannot agree. Neither Mr Osporne nor Mr Messer have any knowledge of my reasons for my distribution of the work, for which I alone am responsible.

Para: 6. The penultimate sentence is another expression of opinion with

which I cannot agree.

Para: 7. This is somewhat obscure, to begin with, (principally on ac-

Once More, I may say that Mr

-count of the "misunderstanding").

Chan Pui has his own branch to attend to, and is there assisted by Mr Wong Hin Ting; r Lenfestey also has his own branch, in which he is assisted by Mr Chan Pui San. At present, in the absence on leave of Mr Ho Iver, special temporary arrangements are in force, which, though not entirely satisfactory, are the best we can do under the circumstances.

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Here, again, is shown an expression of opinion based on insuf- -ficient data, and superficial observation. It so happened that

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