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required for the projected Golf Club Reservoir, and the prices reported to the Crown Agents by Tyler & Sons, I have now the honor to enclose further explanations by the Surveyor General.
2.
As it will be impossible to proceed with the Reservoir in the present state of the Colonial finances and with the season - Vide also Governor to Secretary of State No 249, 13th March 1867 - he must not consider himself as engaged exclusively to look after the Reservoir, but as likewise bound to attend to any business in the Surveyor General's Department for which his services can be rendered available. The salary and appointments of Mr Rydd render him an officer of a more expensive class than ...
80 far advanced till near the close of October, Your Lordship will perhaps think it better not to send out Mr Rydd whose appointment is announced in last.
3.
Your despatch No 19 of the 2nd February ... was originally contemplated, and it is therefore desirable that he should be rendered as useful as possible.
I have the honor to be,
Your Lordship's,
Most Obedient Servant,
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Graves Macdonnel Governor.