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273
4
paragraphs 12 and 20 of the report - in which he bears
the
unqualified testimony to the uniform excellence of bement shipped by us, and states that the only
"worth mentioning
Cause
in which " the Cement has been damaged " was in September 1884 when the
" Typhoon destroyed the boolie
Li
• Village at Jytam and with it
the bement Store together with "200 barrels.
bement.
of
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Upon this it would seem sufficient to remark that it is obvious that locally purchased bement would be exposed to
the
same
shipped by
contingencies
as
that
us and that it is Equally
equally obvious that no firm would undertake to replace free or without bring in some
of cost, cost
way or other paid for it, barrels damaged by
causes over which
it had no control.
With respect to the Surveyor General's statement that bement " from the Grown Agents if found "damaged upon bring opened gives "rise to much trouble and
" correspondence which generally "ends by the Colonial Government "being the loser. I beg to point. out that this is also unsupported one atom of Evidence. If barrels shipped by us had been damaged
by
in course of sea transit or in
landing