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aggravated by the great
great distance Colony from the skilled labour market of Europe, and hav
of this
completely
this r
real distraure excludes the Tyłam..
Waterworks from many of
the minor
the
advantages and facilities within reach of similar undertakings wearer house, all truding to facilitate the work of Enginer and to expedite progress. in Jytam
we have to conteud at
the werew
addition, against the more serious difficulty of the continual ill-health of the engaged in boring operations, and it expecially on this seebject in - connexion with the Europeans who
is more
Avera
ougaged
at home for the tunnel,
that I desire now to address you.
Imprimis, I should state
the tunnel works, including Mr Orange, the Resident Enginer, and alle Cook,
the
Foreman Superintendent of alliuers, has
been down with
er, not once but often..
& fever;
Save of the European foremen of
encore.
robust physique escape with slight periodical attacks, but others, who have left, have - according tok " Ayres - received permanent injury to their health The Chûncee workusen have suffered very greatly also, but as they home invariably refused to submit to European medical trictment, propering, when ill, to return: to their native villages
on the mainland
and to place themselves under their own medicine-new, I am unable to
what has been their fate.
In
of this continued
consequerear of this
sickness, which at times has taken the
3.
that
every person connected e
sofar with
the
type