2nd December, and noted
bas 1 as received
the
that day-
call attention
I may
here call a
to another
group
mistake - The
Requisition for March is not having been 100 late
A
ov v v
by 17
as h
d
77 days: I found
when I
came to examine it in the
Colonial Secretary's Office that
it is endorsed File. I. G. a. March
18-71-
25.
"
and received May 16th 1871- The third charge, in so far
it is included in charges
and two is
open
to the same
objection. It has been disposed
of by the reply and consumed in letter No487 of the 15th October
1871, above
Now
26.
be
referred to, opened..
295
and cann of
the fourth charge namely
to de la
delay of payments
that relating Mi Contractors comprises
different
the
sise
cases all of which with exception of the fourth.
of long standing and formed the
subject of complaints by the ann respective Contractors to the Officer Administering the
Government-which
t which were at the
and
time carefully investigated and disposed of, each
on its merits. I
all de
deference
beg therefore with all to protest against any opetuse
charges being ratted up charges