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Surveyor) and that the public
vare
put
to such great straits for professional __ assistance that the temptations and inducements to the members of the Public Works Department to secede and set
account are becoming
on their own de
up
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great, from the constant offers made to
them as to lead me to fear
we
-
two of
possibly yet lose one or two
men.
may
our best
I think it therefore all the more politie at the present moment that the 4 Government should not discontinue the
slight and harmless indulgences mentioned in preceding paragraph. With regard to the Surveyor General if : the holder of the posts
were allowed the
exercise of his profession for personal
emolument, his private sccupations would
be likely to attain such proportions
as to
injuriously interfere with his duties to Government and render him too independent
of the
the latter and I cannot therefore advise
any
concessions to him even in the shape
of arbitration fees. It would be affectation
mere
my part to pretend not...
to regret that circumstances should
necessitate such advice, but I have
never
nvas
two
held a different opinion and it
upon
this
years ago
that I ventured
ground that
to ask the Earl of Carnarvon to raise the Surveyor
General" "the position of the Attorney.
et
General, brown Solicitor and Colonial Surgeon who are in comparative