the Un-official to your Lordship by the Un-
Members.
apart from the fact that the
Governor of the Colony
and
would not
circumstances prepare
Memorandum on such an
important subject as the one
referred to, hastily and without
due consideration and veri-
and verification
of the facts and figures adduced,
it is within my knowledge that
Sir William Des Voeux took the
of
the
greatest pains to endeavour to
give
a correct view
of the
situation
in his memorandum,
and that in
drawing it up
he availed himself of the
assistance
of various
Government
Officers and others who had a technical knowledge of the subjects upon which he required information. The only adverse criticism that
of the facts
has been made
contained in it is embodied in
(copy inclosed)
a letter
nominally from the
Chamber of Commerce, but,
as
no meeting
was convened,
practically from Mr Mackintosh,
the Chairman, who is
interested in the
Shipping,
evoked from Sir William
Des Voeux
a
minute of
15th May,
which I also inclose
and which has so
far...
2nd May, 1891.
Enclosure III.
1891
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