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Public Service.
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My attention has been
thy curwn to this subject by
recently
information which how reached-
me, that contain
officers
in the
Government service, had bun largely
engaged
in land speentation: Such
engagements, Your Lordship will, I
eure, agree
with me in thinking
cannot but unduly occupy
and thought of officers; a
domy.
respects
the time
and are/
in
more undesirable in
this Colony than elsewhere, seeing
that the purchase of land necessarily
involves
no
involves building operations. And,
regards the Public Works Department,
thene
are
special objections of an obvious
enlarge upon
Kind, which I need not enla
here.
3.
Holding these views, Dhad
contemplated making new restrictive regulations on the subject, applying
in
officers,
vome measure to all public off and especially to those of the Works Repartiment; but, to my surprise, no Your Lordship will observe from the
enclosure referred to above, the attorney Ceveral is of opinion that the
Governor