you were still dissatisfied,
and
you
asked that it might be again reconstituted
by the withdrawal of the Harbour Master, and the substitution of an unofficial member of Council in his place. Your request was based on the ground that to be of any practical value, the Committee must contain a majority of unofficial members. The Governor is at a loss to imagine by what process of reasoning you can have arrived at this astonishing conclusion. It is the more extraordinary because a subsequent letter of yours shows that you had grasped the fact that the Committee would have no power to decide anything, and that its functions were strictly limited to enquiring and recommending. It obviously follows
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