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which has been sanctioned to assist me in furnishing the private apartments would of course under these circumstances, as I have already observed, be an arrangement most favourable to me, and the condition attached to the grant offering the furniture to my successor at a valuation would probably prevent a recurrence of a similar difficulty in the care of my immediate successor; that the bedroom furniture could again, as in Sir John Bowring's case, become private property subject to no condition, and there would be nothing to prevent a recurrence of the two evils which the Legislative Council wish to avert, viz., the unseemly proceeding of auction in Government House; 2ndly the discomfort to future Governors, similar to that which I experienced on arrival.
9. The only permanent and satisfactory solution which there can, in my opinion, be adopted to prevent these evils is by providing here, as is done in the five Colonies I have instanced, the necessary furniture for the whole house at the public expense. I therefore beg to recommend that this course,