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ed to
7 you by Dr Ayres relative to the services rendered by the matron and nursing sisters of the Government Civil Hospital during the plague epidemic
in 1894.
2.
In the first place I
would remark that I think.
it would have been better if 1. Ayres had addressed a com_
D.
munication to me
le on
the sub-
me an
jest before he left the Colony
and had then given opportunity of preventing him
from
(
from putting on paper" several
misstatements which occur in
his letter to you of 30th July.
3.
I beg to assure
you
that the claims of the sisters
upon the Government and the mmunity of this Colony have not been overlooked. They have severally received official letters from
me
expressing the thanks of the Government for
their services. Gold medals have been presented to them by the community
asa
token
of