CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12] — Page 549

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30.

I have the honour to acknowledge Your Excellency's

letter of 2nd. December in reply to mine of 1st.December, and at

the same time to thank you for its promptness, and for the

promised compliance with my request, contained in paragraph 10,

that the question now under discussion be reconsidered by the

Executive Council. I have to request that this letter be includ-

ed in the papers laid before the Council.

2.

With reference to paragraph 3 of the letter under

reply I am afraid I did not make my meaning clear. I had not the

slightest intention of putting any questions either to Your

Excellency or to any member of the Executive Council, for such a

course would be contrary to established usage; on the contrary

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I imagined that in soc sericus a matter the Council would like to

ask me questions. Nor did I contemplate any departure from the

usual custom that non-members withdraw during the deliberations

of the Council. I asked to be allowed to attend the Council for

the general reason that no man ought to be dismissed from the

service without being heard: and for two special reasons first

that things are made clearer by speaking than by writing;

secondly, that this is specially true in this case, because the

we questions involved are technical and not easy of full com-

prehension by the layman, and further an injustice to myself is

contemplated; the members of the Executive Council would there-

fore, it seems to me, naturally desire verbal explanations on

points which my memorandum had not made too clear to them. I

desired therefore to state the case fully, and more in detail

than has been possible in writing, to the Executive Council

before they tender advice to Your Excellency. Moreover the

His Excellency

Sir Frederick Lugard, G.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.0.