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of the department, and -
letters have almost
many
daily to be exchanged
with members.
of
the
public alone, on the subject
of
land, buildings, drainage, :water supply, etc.
3.
It unfortunately
happened that the former Head Clerk, Mr Chan Afook, resigned his post before Mr. Brown & arrival, and
there was
practically
no
one in the office of the
Department
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Department who could fill
his place.
4.
Under these circumstances!"
on one
the late Mr. Stewart, while administering the Government during my absence, on Mr Brown's urgent representations, temporarily appointed month's probation, Mr. J. M. Luqueer, who had formerly been employed in a -mercantile firm, the affairs
of which have recently been wound up, to take
charge