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Government may consider expedient. At the same time I felt it would be a great advantage in dealing with the various questions likely to arise in connection with the new arrangement - if eventually carried out, that the Postmaster General of the Colony, should accompany Mr Read during the greater portion of his tour of Inspection, and that if possible, they should both join in a report recommending such alterations and arrangements as might be essential.
The local experience thus acquired by Mr Mitchell, the Colonial Postmaster General, cannot but hereafter prove highly useful, whilst the expediency of dealing in the same report with Imperial as well as Colonial interests by agents representing both appeared to me an advantage, which it was desirable to secure even at the cost of the temporary inconvenience which Mr Mitchell's absence might entail.
You entirely coincided in this view, and I therefore instructed Mr Mitchell to make arrangements for the discharge of his duties whilst accompanying Mr Read - and I relieved him at...