ENCLOSURE 20.2.
(1)
511
Your Excellency.
We have carefully considered your remarks at the inter-
view on Monday September 2nd, and feel bound to urge in
reply that the reasons advanced in deprecation of the
scheme of an Association do not seem to us to apply
sufficiently to the case.
In the first instance we are wholly unable to con-
ceive how the action of the Civil ervice in forming a
body to represent their interests to the Government end
the Secretary of State is of any ouolic importance, nor
how it could influence the ratepayers or others to take
action which would be detrimental to the interests of
the Colony.
If there are any evil anirits broad it can be
readily assumed that their influence will work somehow
sooner or later, whatever we may say or do in regard to
our own affairs, while it is to some extent probaole that
if they did look to the Association as en example, they
would see how one's business can be conducted in such a
careful and temperate manner as to give offence to none.
The mere fact of the creation of an Association in
not at all necesarry a a aŋur to action in a community
where all the fections are already sufficiently familiar
with Unions Guilds and other bodies of like nature.
we are also unasle to see how the matter of good
form can come in when it is understood that the Associa=
tion would conduct itself in quite an open and honest
manner: in fact confining its action to a temperately
expressed representation to the Government, or (in case
of irreconcileable difference of opinion) a lemorial to
the Bearetary of itate,
Coming to the question of the need for such an
Association we must point out that its sole purpose is
to ensure that the views of the bervice are fully
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