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QSA847106 1883 Letter from Alfred Smart to John Ahern 17 October, Colonial Secretarys Office In Letters, In letter 83/6461, DR77968
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COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, QUEENSLAND No. 6047 / NOV 23 1883
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, QUEENSLAND 6400 IBl OCT 30 1883
[written diagonally, over letter] ??? 23/11/83
[centred, in pencil] Comiss: Police
Cloncurry N. M. P. Camp
October 17th / 83
Sir
I have the honor to inform you in reference to the leave asked for by Sub: Insp: Clerk, it is almost imperative that it should be granted to enable him to proceed South and consult Medical Authority as he is suffering from secondary symptoms and his body is covered with sores. Under the present circumstances he is totally unfit for duty and cannot patrol. There is no medical man in Cloncurry therefore little chance of him progressing towards convalescence so under these circumstances I earnestly recommend his leave be granted, more especially as it will be impossible to proceed to Lake Nash until after the wet season. I have sent in requisition for supplies for that station to be forwarded to Burketown care of Police Magistrate. Mr Costello the owner of Lake Nash Station has promised to forward all stores and rations by his own teams at current rates of carriage by the time the wet season is over and teams can travel no doubt Sub Insp: Clerk will have completely recovered and will be able
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B.C. 1433. [initials, in pencil] [?] The Hon The Colonial Secretary [written in pencil] 21. 11. 83
The Commissioner of Police [signed] R.Gray B/C [initials] DTS Com Pol
[written lengthwise, in left margin] I would recommend that Sub Inspector Clarke [sic] be dismissed. It is not likely that he will ever on account of his intemperate habits, recover sufficiently to perform police duty - He is a confessed drunkard. [signed] D.T. Seymour CP
*part leave of absence* - report again after advise
*[written in pencil] Advise Sub Insp Ahern by wire [initials] W.F. 4. 12. [A?] -------------- [Away?] 4. 12. 83 ---------------