Chief Secretary's Office
Melbourne, 4th June 1885
Memo
The subjoined letter received from the Public Service Board is circulated by direction to the various Departments in the Chief Secretary's Division of the Public Service.
T. R. Wilson
The Government Botanist.
[Copy]
Public Service Board
Melbourne 30th May 1885
4979
Sir,
The Public Service Board has received from the Treasury a suggestion made by the Government Medical Officer to the Honourable the Premier, with a view to keeping a proper check on the absence of Officers suspected of intemperance.
I am directed by the Board to convey to you the opinion of the Honourable the Premier that, in all cases of absence from duty of an officer when you have good reason to suspect that such officer uses alcoholic liquors to excess, you should communicate at once with the Government Medical Officer and request him to see the absentee.
I have &c
(signed) H.T. Gomm
The Under Secretary &c.
Document is a circular (p. 393) to the heads of 14 departments (listed p. 394) within the Chief Secretary's Department.
Please cite as “FVM-85-06-04c,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on