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expressed in your despatch No. 252 of 3rd August last, that the work of the Harbour Department can be efficiently performed by one
Officer with the assistance of a
Cadet, and with a view to abolish- ing the office of Assistant Harbour
Master I have noted Captain Has- tings name for transfer to em- ployment in another Colony, should
any suitable vacancy occur.
6. With reference to your
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proposal to cut down the cost of
the Observatory, I would remind
you that the staff of the Observa-
tory was recently increased on the
recommendation of, and after ex-
haustive enquiry by, a local Com- mittee. I should therefore be in
any case, opposed to making any
A reduction in the establishment at
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the present time; moreover valuable work appears to have been done by
this office, the importance of
which in the eyes of the Astrono- mer Royal may be guaged from the enclosed letter, and I am not pre- pared to admit that this work is of a kind which is of no special value to the Colony itself.
7. You do not state in what
direction you contemplate making