he might reasonably have expected.
5.
Unquestionably Mr. Forth would have been a higher class Officer, if he had been more fertile in expedients with limited resources,
but the same observation applies "mutatio mutandis" to all parties concerned including the Administration of the Government.
It was on whom in Executive Council devolved - as remarked in the Treasury letter - the task of starting Mr. Forth on his duties by fixing and publishing the rates for the Year 1864 in the Gazette and
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it must be remembered that in the absence of responsible Government the Officer administering here is himself the actual head and source of general action of the Government. His interference therefore might have been earlier and of a more vigorous character.
This is apparent in various ways as for example when W. Forth in November 1863 drew attention to the non-insertion by the valuators in their tables the occupants" Mr. ... he was told that the valuators "would be so instructed". whereas