CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7] — Page 251

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Enclosure 1.

Hon. Colonial Secretary,

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I have to report the following facts with

reference to the conduct of P. Law the clerk in the Attorney-

-General's Office.

1.

Yesterday afternoon without permission he

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left the office at about 3 o'clock and did not return.

2.

This morning the attached document marked

A was brought to me by a coolie..

3.

As I was not fully acquainted with the practice in the various departments I asked Mr. A. G. H. Flet- -cher to come and see me and after seeing him on the practice I sent for Law and in Mr. Fletcher's presence I asked him for his reasons for applying for leave. He became talkative and in- -pertinent and declined to give any reason whatever. I therefore told him that I would not grant his application. He then said that he would resign. I asked him to send in his resignation to you. I then drew up the attached document marked B and read it over to him and asked him if he wished me to send it in. At

first he said that he did not care one way or the other but afterwards he said that he would rather I did not. I again asked him for his reasons for applying for leave and he said in reply that I was not entitled to have them and that both lar. Rees Davies and I were trying to hound him, an old man of forty,

out of the service and that he could take care of himself. He

then said something concerning Mr. Rees Davies which, he said, shewed that Mr. Rees Davies was no gentleman and then added that he would give his reasons to Mr. Fletcher whom, by way of con-

-trast, he described as clever and a gentleman. He then stated

that there was illness in the house and he wished to be there. I

asked him why he had not said so before and told him that I

would grant him the two days' leave on two conditions:-

(1). that he gave me such a written apology as I might

choose to accept.

(2). that he did not in future leave the office before

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