CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911 — Page 241

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RECE Rrot 10 NOV !!

HOLLAND LODGE

35 ADDISON ROAD. W.

November 1911.

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Sir

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No: 34133 1911 of the 4th November, and to most respect- -fully offer the following reply thereto.

2. I did not understand that the enclosures to

your letter of 14 June were intended to represent specific

charges against me, but gather from that now under reply that

such is the case.

3. I find it difficult to discover, however, what the actual charges are. But they appear to be

The Under Secretary of State

Colonial Office.

(a)

(b)

(c)

That I restricted my enquiry into the working

of the new scheme for the collection of

fees &c: to interrogation of my own subor-

-dinates.

That I was guilty of falsehood when I told

Messrs Messer and Osborne that the scheme

was working smoothly and well, because I

was able subsequently to discover that the shroff had in isolated cases collected mo-

-ney in defiance of my orders. That I considered it advisable to use up the

old stock of forms from motives of economy.

(4)

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