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in its entirety on the ground that it contains detail, which should be the subject of special report and that it was in some part misleading. The Administrator records his agreement with this, and leaves to Mr. Smith's discretion "to apply the pruning knife to all cases forwarded to the Storey General to his recall, and on the 19th April Mr. Bramston minutes it "seen and returned."
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The Acting Colonial Secretary has failed to find record of the Commission to which your Lordship refers.
He has ascertained from Mr. Price and J. Arpe that they made no report of the Land in 1875.
They allege that they were merely requested by the Governor to acquaint themselves with the subject, that they took notes for their own information, but that those notes were not made official.
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I fear that Mr Cecil C. Smith's account of Dr Arpe's report on the health of the Colony in the Year 1874, that "it is in some few points misleading" is correct.
The Vos Say confidence in the value of Dr Arpe's writing reports has been somewhat shaken by the admission recently made that his report on the prevalence of the contagious...