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Paragraph 95. The present arrangement
96- for carrying on the Immigration Agency is undoubtedly unsuitable, but may easily be altered in the course of the next year, as the Appointment is really Provisional and Temporary.
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I regard the transfer of the Treasury to the Commissariat Bank; I am decidedly opposed to such a measure, and beg to call attention to Lord Grey's despatch Separate to Sir George Bonham of 25 February, 1857. Of the two the Bank is preferable, Bank
I have had quite enough experience of the Commissariat as adapted to the conduct of local matters.
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very great inconvenience would result from the removal of the Treasury from the Government office - I myself require daily perhaps hourly information to be supplied on the instant, which I should be unable to procure for perhaps 24 hours if I had to send for it to the Bank or elsewhere.
Besides the Bank would not be as amenable to official discipline, or so fitted for confidential Communications as an Officer with no other public responsibilities, like the Colonial Treasurer.
It is true that at the date of Lord Grey's Despatch above quoted the Oriental Bank Corporation was not, as now,