by him
"small is the discount allowed on quantities under a gross. In addition to 2½ percent for cash. It now remains for the Government Analyst to show
1) Whether to his knowledge Hicks has allowed better terms on a similar order; if so, a further representation will be made to him. & inasmuch as
the Crown expect to receive, as the Crown Agents, from the firms with whom they deal the terms granted to the most favoured wholesale customers.
[report of the Retrenchment Committee and in your covering despatch No.20] of the 4th of September last) which deal with the Medical and Sanitary Departments.
3. The first point to notice is the cost of drugs, on which subject you state that you have called upon the Colonial Surgeon to furnish a report. It was decided many years ago by the then Secretary of State that the Crown Agents should procure all the drugs ordered for the Colonies from the Apothecaries' Hall, with the object of ensuring that only drugs of the best quality should be supplied, and the Crown Agents inform me that they cannot recall any complaints from any Colony on the score of quality.