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Government is of opinion that it is desirable to issue, as early as possible, a notification calling for tenders for the Opium Farm in order that if the first offers should be considered unsatisfactory, there would be sufficient time to call for fresh tenders and thus save this Government from incurring the risk of a loss which at the present time it would be quite unable to bear.
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The Deer
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I have now to enclose, for Your Lordship's information, a copy of the conditions which were attached to the notification calling for tenders in 1891, and to state that the Unofficial members of Council whom I consulted generally on the question, and who are in favour of the conditions generally, strongly urged an amendment of the condition marked A to the effect that the Farmer...
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