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clerical work.
CLERICAL WORK.
Any attempt to reduce to statistical form the clerical work of the Department is bound to be
disappointing, not to say misleading. For what they are worth some figures for last year and for 1922
(shown in parentheses) are given in Table 21. They convey no idea of the amount of recording done
on the various card indices, of the time spent in preparing papers and records for the Committees
under whom the Department work or in the systematic filing of papers, etc., so as to be available for
future reference. The records in the Department have increased in bulk and complexity during the
recent years to such an extent that it has been necessary during the past year to largely re-organise
the principal systems of filing.