Appendic A.
Minute by Governor Macdonnell
Mr Austin.
9th January 1872.
549
I am not aware of any reason why Mr Ford's Department should not be altogether withdrawn from the nominal control of the Surveyor General.
The interposition of the latter officer as an organ of Government when communication with the person in charge of the Public Gardens and Planting was necessary, may have been...
...Donaldson, the late Superintendent, was a person so uneducated and of generally such inferior personal status as to...
At present injurious delay will result but from placing any department...
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