CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914 — Page 230

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Sir,

CO

47779

37, Cleveland Square,

227

Hyde Park,

TREC

Rea 2 DEC141

London, W.

1st December 1914.

22250/1914.

With reference to your letter of the 1st July.

2.

I would ask if all the extra and long hours I have worked overtime do not more than make up for what-

ever leave I have had.

This fact has been overlooked.

Such extra work without recognition or payment

is opposed to all the principles adopted and passed into

Law by the present Government.

I submit that I have succeeded in making the best of the muddles of others relating to two works of

magnitude in which the Government were involved.

I have remained loyal to duty in Government

interests, especially when the Government were placed in

a deplorable position, through no fault of mine, I have

also spent the best years of my professional life in a

service that apparently leads to a blind alley.

Work to me was one of the pleasures of life

and I can truthfully say I have willingly done the work

of two men ever since I joined the Service.

I have carried out large Public Works, the

principal buildings in the Colony, as well as many works

of less magnitude and it is due to the want of system

and bad methods in use that more works were not carried

out.