550
as the Ford with all the details of the art
of planting but also a
careful and painstaking officer having the deepest personal interest in his
work.
220
closer
16. The third chapter of Mr Ford's Report entitled "Deductions arrived at from experience in Departmental Management;" will be found on inspection to consist mainly of
the Surveyor-General's reflections and statements that are not borne out by facts.
17. Regarding the passage in paragraph 90 complaining of the injury that was done to some plants (pithecolobium saman) by the delay in the transfer of the Forest Department to Mr Ford's management, I may mention
that pending an answer to a letter I had addressed to the Governor on the subject of this transfer, I was able to resign the management to Mr Ford, but fearful lest in consequence of the delay any injury might be done to plants, I wrote to Mr Ford the note given in Appendix B, placing the professional services of Mr Cornean, his late locum tenens, at his disposal. At the same time, I directed Mr Cornean to carry out all Mr Ford's instructions in connection with such work as Mr Ford deemed urgent. Mr Ford, however, declined to give Mr Cornean any instructions, and the plants must have suffered in consequence.
18. In the same paragraph 20, Mr Ford states that during his absence on leave...
one hundred and eighty...