CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12] — Page 473

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I never became, to outward seeming, intoxicated; and, if I had

made no attempt to place a check upon myself, the Government

would never have been in a position to prefer a charge of drunken-

-ness against me. The periods of abstinence which precede each

lapse aggravate, I think, my condition of incapacity when the lapse

COMOS.

7.

I do not excuse myself. The thing is to me in t

the nature of a disease, But the degree of success which I have

already attained in checking the habit makes me confident that eventually I will overcome all temptation to take alcohol.

8,

I may add one further point. The amount and the

quality of my work has not suffered in any way,

At any investigation that the Government may

think fit to hold I propose to call witnesses in regard to my

statement that I am ordinarily a total abstainer.

I have etc.,

(Bd.) ▼. Bowen-Ro■inde.

The Honourable

The Colonial Seorstany,'