CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12] — Page 475

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Report of the Committee appointed to enquire into centain

charges against Mr. C.F,V,Bowen-Rowlands.

Inquiry held on the 29th. November, 1916.

kir, Bowen-Rowlands admits the present charge. Hisdefence is

that he is a total abstainer with occasional lapses, that at present the attacks are irresistible when they come en, that he became an habitual total abstainer for the purposes of surmounting

a contrary tendency, that he has made a real and comparatively

successful attempt to overcome what is in the nature of a disease

rather thm a vice, and that he hopes to succeed eventually.

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2. We are satisfied that, but for occasional ukbreaks, he is a

total abstainer, and that he has made a real and continued effort

to overcome the desire for alcohol.

Without expressing any opinion as to the merits of this

defenos er as to what action should now be taken by the Governor

in Council, we may point out that the above defence had not been placed before the Government when Mr. Bowen-Rowlands was warned last May that the smallest lapse in the future would entail his

dismissal.

(8đ.) J. H. Kap. A. M.

Thomson.

1. H. Sharp.

2nd. December, 1916.