CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12] — Page 458

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question of his receiving any Colonial pay, after the period of his suspension is completed will depend upon your decision on his

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In the circumstances I shall be glad to learn

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your decision by telegraph.

I have the homur to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient,

humble servant,

may

Governor,&c..

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I have now received from Mr. Bowen-Rowlands the

enclosed Memorial for trmsmission to you, I forward also copy of correspondence which has arisen thereon.

With reference to his allegations against other officers in the Public Service it does not seem necessary that I

the should say more than that the charges against Mr. Tratman, Acting Head of the Department, who happens to suffer very severely from headache, are so ridiculous that it becomes doubtful whether Mr. Bowen-Rowlands can have been in full possession of his senses when he wrote his memorial; and that the remainder of his allega❤ -tions are unjustifiable and malicious slanders although it is true that Dr. Hunter did die suddenly of the effects of alcoholisin and that Mr. James was warned last year by myself that if he com- -mitted himself again through indulgence in drink he would be dis-

-missed.

There is no question of making a scapegoat of Mr. Bowen-Rowlands. On the contrary he had thrice repeated warning to regulatehis conduct. This is more thm I am or have been in the habit of giving in such cases.

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