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beneath this plantation and through the plantations of 1974 and 1878. Under
are nurseries
are
the road and to the right of the tree-planting department, and higher up is a guinea grass farm In the fore-ground on the right pinus sinensis planted by Mr. Ford in 1874 and on the left indigenous vegetation. N. 6 shows the indigenous trees in what is called little Wonghong wood. I have ordered a careful survey of this district to be made, and I have asked Mr. Ford to prepare a special
report
on
the best means
and utilizing
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it
of preserving
I take this opportunity of
laying before Your Lordship
some
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papers that I printed for the Legislative Council last year respecting the rival claims of Mr Price and Mr. Ford to be Superintendent of the Gardens and Tree Planting Department. Your Lordship had duly appointed Mr. Ford to this Office in 1871; and Governor Sir Richard MacDonnell issued the necessary minutes under which the Government Gardens and the Planting of Trees were declared to be under the sole control of Mr. Ford who was to render all accounts
for his department.
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Subsequently Mr. Price arrived in the Colony and induced Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy to make the Gardens
a sub-department of the Surveyor General's
a
t
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