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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1702, 3 July 1885, Page 2

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Tlio ropml id Mr (>. )J. Hu;, the enquiry into I lm di.-oni-soil of Mi ,vr i,,n, ■Shileti Inspector, has I >.•■:n i.il o li;> m i talile id Iho 11 hum'. Ti" iO|i ii i hi, n come tn hand but the I ’■ > - -nnini n I a 1110 matter lli.m I'no linm.-di.i-i' and ostensible, Cl'i'i; of Mr '’a lon’- ;-• ■ll •■ v i! was the report of (In: i.'inei In. p.a;:,.i, dated 2nd June, J.SSd, an eh expn- •! ,■ charged Inspieior N l l l l -" i ~nli eai,-I. -. ness in the mspeein,ii ol tin- l’>,Mid..nrun, and also (by implieal no.) in iv.mhl to an out break of scab mi liamiysido and. K'dicrts’ run and Johnston's inn. Nmwillislainliiig these reports, no form il cbaiges had been made a.Mint Air Sutton, and no explanation was eaihd, but in Anoint, ISSd, he was ordered (n leave Wail lira pa ami proceed to Nets .0. The gravamen of too charms a-Miu, 1 Sutton, no far as the department m c mCel'inal, Ins ill the ail-f-.i.om w.lh regard in the Uivenbde, inn. mid \i r ibivy passes over the 1 I her charms with the rem-nk that, <>n ilm ulr-!e. Siuiim has rendered fair and reasonable explanations. As to dm Kiverdale ati'.o. Mr Davy thinks the qiie.-tnm should have been dealt with while tin, fae■ n . fresh, and it tin* dena’ini 01' now rum, themselves in a fah-e position widi in specter Sut 1 in, it was due to his n,i 11 action in withholding the enquiry in the first instance. It was out M question to preleiid liiat Ins Telllovil nuts in tile ordinary course of departmental changes ; and wrii tile kimv. K d.m (hai certani representations had been made to Hie department by rnlluential persons, nothing could be more natural than for Mr Sutton and his friends to connect his removal with tlmse representations. The present enquiry had forced the department into nctiie hostilities against Mr Sutton, but Mr Davy had good reason to thunk that any shortcomings. real or apparent, on .Mr Sutton s part were not seriously regarded, and that he never really forfeited the confidence of Ilia superiors. Mr Davy concludes “ Taking everything into account I am of opinion that Inspector Sutton’s retirement from the service was forced upon him by misnnderstandm,, for which ho was at mom only parti iiiy responsible, and that his case is, in this resp'W, wet thy of favorable consideration,”