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have the honour to transmit
for
a s
Your Lordship's information
Encl: 25th Oct. 1893. With six spare copies.
the enclosed printed copies of supplementary report by the Director of Public Works relative to the damage done to the Gap Rock Lighthouse
during the recent typhoon,
and of a letter from the Director of the Observatory, published in
I who
which
were
the Government Gazette of the 28th instant.
2.
I attach importance to
Encl: 20th Oct 1893. With six spare Copies.
to Mr Cooper's suggestion that during his leave he should be placed in communication with an Engineer of considerable experience in the construction and maintenance of light-houses in exposed situations,
and I venture to solicit Your Lordship's good offices in this behalf. Mr. Cooper leaves for England on 6th proximo and on arrival will report himself at the Colonial Office.