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more fortunate than Captain R.C. Stardy in Mr. Ford.
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The inconsistency of holding me responsible for the proper laying out of Garden works and the expenditure of public moneys while I was excluded from the supervision, having been brought to the notice of Sir Arthur Kennedy, His Excellency upon looking into matters, discovered that the creation of a new Government Department for me on the 9th of January 1872, seven months after that officer's arrival in the Colony, had not originated with Your Lordship, and brought to Your Lordship's knowledge.
It was even found that Sir Arthur Kennedy was also surprised to find that notwithstanding Governor Macdonnell's decisive minute of the 9th of January 1872 relieving the Public Works Department from the charge of Garden matters, the Government had found itself compelled to revert to that department for the proper superintendence and control of the Garden work of 1872-3.
7. Consequently, Sir Arthur Kennedy had the less hesitation in cancelling a minute which practical experience had shown to be inoperative.
In revoking his predecessor's minute constituting the Gardens a separate department, Sir Arthur Kennedy pressed his conviction that the arrangements under that minute could not have been intended to be permanent and that they owed their origin to special circumstances...