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3. It now appears that I am charged with having failed
to exercise adequate personal supervision over the subordinates of my Department, though no particulars are given. My reply to so vague and general a charge can be, itself, but a generality.
4. I may here mention that the letter from the Crown Agents, referred to in mine of the 14th May, came as a complete
surprise to me, no previous intimation having reached me that I was to be held personally responsible, or that such a suggestion had even been made, except & verbal communication from the Assistant Colonial Secretary, to the effect that charges would probably be formulated, and would come before the Executive Council, when I would have an opportunity of refuting them.
This was late in November. In spite of repeated enquiries, I was unable to elicit anything further, and from then until I left the Colony, on leave, on February 1st, no communication on the subject, to the best of my recollection, reached me. This, coupled with the fact that no action was taken, up to the latter daue, in connection with the charges made by me against the Chinese accountant in the Harbour Office, who was seriously implicated in the matter, and my inability to obtain any information, led me to believe that the matter had been dropped, while the state of my health prevented me from taking a any more energetic action.
5... In order that I may make the position clear, it is necessary for me to go back some years, before I entered the Colonial Service. At the time to which I refer, (in the 80's), the clerical staff of the Harbour Department was composed of relia-
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