Chief Secretary's Office,
Melbourne, 6th August, 1895.
Sir,
My attention having been called to certain cases in which applications for transfer have been addressed by the Officers concerned directly to the Public Service Board, I have the honor to request that you will call the attention of the Officers in your branch to Clause 28 of the Regulations under Section 123 of the "Public Service Act 1890" providing that applications or communications from Officers relating to their positions or pay must be transmitted through the head of the Branch to the Permanent Head of the Department, and that you will give instructions that this procedure be strictly carried out in all cases in future.1
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
The Government Botanist
Topp had been concerned for some time about the process of transfer of staff between departments: see also M to C. Topp, 28 January 1895 (in this edition as 95-01-28a) and notes thereto.
The document is a printed circular sent to the heads of 13 branches within the Chief Secretary's Department, with 'The Government Botanist' inserted by hand; the file copy is unsigned but Topp was Undersecretary of the Chief Secretary's Department at the time.
Please cite as “FVM-95-08-06,” 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