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been made by Hall concerning himself, 11that he would not rest satisfied
until he has succeeded in affecting my removal11, giving as his reason that
he wished to submit it to the Governor, as such conduct by Hall was
subversive of good order and should be stopped. 26
Wigmore ob liged
immediately, adding with rather a flourish that Hall had even stated that
Schaw 's removal had been ordered and the place of banishment named .
two letters Schaw forwarded to the Chief Police Magistrate, Forster , with
a covering letter in which he claimed he had avoided Hall for reasons of
his own on every occasion since his arrival in the district , and that he
had given him no justification for his attack .
He concluded, 'It is
Th es e
impossible for me to describe the injury he has done to me in the district" .
Forster directed them to the Colonial Secretary , writing in sympathy
with Schaw .
Such conduct on the part of the Assistant District Surgeon must
be extremely detrimental to the interests of the District and
that unless Dr Hall can satisfy His Excellency upon the point
on which the·comp laint is made , I think it is most desirable
that he should be moved to some other district ....
Together with a letter from Wigmore, they finally reached the Governor
who demanded an explanation from Hall.
On October 4 the Principal
Medical Officer advised the Colonial Secretary that he considered Ha ll
had proved himself innocent of the charges brought against him by Schaw .
Hall also replied on October 4 to Wigmore 's invections in a lengthy
communication to the Colonial Times , in which he detailed in words
biting with sarcasm his own and Wigmore 's part in the Cockerill Affair .
He made his own attitude perfect ly clear .
. ... The library is open to every memb er and few there are who
do not make use of some of the nearly six hundred volumes it
contains . The doors of the lecture room are thrown open to
all who choos e.to enter - members or not , rich or poor , bond
or free . The only monopoly I have witnessed has been a
monopoly of its labours and of those labours I have not only
had to transact my own share , as a lecturer , as an active
member of the Committee , and now as Librarian - but also
either to see its affairs go wreck (which I will never do for
lack of exertion whi lst I am identified with it) or help both
the Rev . Mr Wigmore and the late librarian to do that which
they wanted either zeal or industry to do for themselves ....
Indeed, Wigmore 's "quixotic wrath'' against him was due , not to gallantry
in protecting Schaw against attack as he made out , but rather to a petty ,
private grudge based on a false assumption , and as such merited noth ing
but pity and disgust .
26 c.s.o. 22/8/284 .