CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2] — Page 544

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Enclosure 2.

Hon. Colonial Secretary,

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I beg to report that Bagwan Ming, Peak Watch-

-man, absented himself from duty without permission on two

occasions on the 23rd. instant. He was met at the Dairy Farm at 7.

30 a.m. by Inspector Fisher, Scavenging Inspector and by Inspector

Frith at No. 41, Hollywood Road at 3.45 p.m. It will be seen from

the copy of the Standing Orders attached that his morning duty at

the Peak did not finish until 8 a.m. and his afternoon duty until 4 p.m. In each case if he was up at the Peak at all it must have

taken him at least 20 minutes to walk down. Quarters are provided

for him at the Peak.

2.

Bagwan Singh is quite unreliable and useless as

a watchman at the Peak or anywhere else, and I have long suspected him of neglecting his duty but it has been a very difficult matter to check his movements as the nature of his duties gives him a

certain amount of latitude. He was severely reprimanded by the Governor for money lending last year and only escaped dismissal because there was no Standing Order in the Sanitary Department to the effect that money lending was prohibited, whereas in the Police in which Force he formerly served there was such an order. On this occasion he cannot plead the absence of definite orders (please see order 7). I therefore recommend that charges be framed and that he be called upon to show cause why his services should not be dispensed with on the grounds of neglect of auty as specifi- -ed in paragraph 1 of this minute. Approve this course ?

I have since had his movements watched and att-

-ach the result memo. dated 26th. July, 1912.

31st. July, 1912.

(Sd.) E. D. C. Wolfe,

H. S. D.