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*in the section between Aberdeen and Deep Water Bay an important sanitary reform, for part of the scheme is to fill up and turf over the festering inlet to which the leading medical men of the Colony point as the source of Malaria which has so long marred the health of Aberdeen and the neighbourhood of Magazine Gap. I have nothing but the good of the community at heart, and I emphatically state that if you believe medical testimony it is your duty to decree that this section be the first taken in hand"
3. It seems to me that Government having voted a moiety of the whole fund, are more deeply interested in the matter than any individual subscriber and are therefore in a position to request the Chairman of the officially appointed Committee to call a meeting to reconsider the resolution which it is, at present binds the hands of the Committee to a course of action entirely opposed to the wishes of the majority of the subscribers. I venture to suggest this course as a means of ascertaining the views of those concerned.
4. I also think it would be desirable while His Excellency Major-General Black remains with us, to have the question of the construction of a road round Mount Davis discussed from a military point of view.
5. The best season for road-construction work is the present, labour is abundant and it seems a pity that money
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