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count be otherwise prejudicial to the Public Service. It is scarcely possible to surmise that H.M.'s Service can suffer from communication between the various Departments as rendered difficult would these papers indicate; for it appears Dunlop's adoption of a circuitous letter addressing through the then Mayor to the Colonial Secretary was to sequestrate.
I trust that you will not fail to perceive the importance of maintaining good relations with the principal offices in the Public Service in the Colony as will conduce to the satisfactory adjustment of any differences of opinion which may from time to time arise in the transaction of business between them.
Yours truly,
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It is not considered that this work is of sufficient importance to justify its being forwarded immediately; provision will however be made for it in next year's Estimates.
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