The District is most urgent, it being so overcrowded. I think it unwise to favour that proposal as I am quite persuaded it will have a contrary effect to that imagined; that the trade must remain in that locality until others are carefully established, and it is to provide for the immediate wants of that trade that I proposed the further extension of the Road and removal of the Hill for convenience, concentration, and ventilation.
I have, &c.,
(signed) C. G. E. (Charles George) Eitelvey, Surveyor General
(True Copy)
Colonial Secretary
✓ (Copy)
Memorandum.
This document, addressed to,
No. 2.187/4
Government Offices,
18th October 1855.
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This general scheme meets with my full approval, as a most important and valuable public work; and, reserving questions of detail and improvements which may be suggested hereafter, I am desirous that measures should be taken, without delay, to ascertain whether there are any legal or practical difficulties in accomplishing this important public work, with a view to the removal of such difficulties.
I refer to the consideration of the Land Committee the points at issue between yourself, the Colonial Treasurer, Colonial Engineer, and the Surveyor General. The question...
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