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Work's become necesary.

13.

I cannot conclude this stretch of the Survey Department without adding that whilst Mr Moorson has lost the

confidence of myself and of the Executive

Connail

we cannot congratulate auseless and the Colony or his defects being supplied by his second in aurhority- the Asistant Surveyor General, Mr. Buckle, of the Royal Enginen, who

has been "seconded" with a view to

his accepting employment under this

Government.

14.

Jerry early became

aware

that,

whatever M. Buckle's merits might be

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a Military Engineer, he

was not

well suited for the requirements of his

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prevent post, being without adequate

experience,

as

a Civil Architect, and

being also defective

15.

sin resources

to meet

the frequent requirements of the licvernment.

In the few matters hitherto entrusted to his superintendence he has

contrived to cause serious inconvenience

do in completion

and expense, notably

of the Central School's lecture Wall and

laboratory - his requisition for Government Howe Turnitine - the dramage of a

The Peak and

small Swamp

Mean

the construction of a Peligraph and Police Station close to Mamtain lodge. The roof of the latter was of an expensive

Kind, and yet it leaked all over,

when

completed, whilst to this day neither

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