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orrespondance should à official as far
e possible.
Purchase of stores and materials in England
If it per❤
Resident Engineer, or his loyalty.
ceives that the expenditure is exceeding the
sanctioned estimates, or believes that the pro-
gress or quality of the work is unsatisfactory
its intervaħtion will be beneficial. The more
however that the intervention is exercised through
the Consulting Engineer, the stronger will be the
position of the Government.
16. It is essential that everything not of
a confidential character or obviously unsuited
to appear in official correspondence which has
to be dealt with in correspondence between Con-
sulting Engineer and Resident Engineer shall be
included in the letters transmitted through the
Colonial Recretary. If this is not the case,
and such matters are dealt with privately or
unofficially, the tendency is to weaken the con-
fidence of the Government and to cause it to inter-
fere in matters which it would have preferred to
leave alone had it, from correspondence passing
through its hands, seen that they were receiving
consideration from those responsible.
17.
Such stores and materials as are ob-
tained from outside the Colony are ordered through,
the Crown Agents for the Colonies, the necessary
indents being prepared by the Resident Engineer and
passed in the same way as the rest of his corres-
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pondence through the Colonial Government. It
should espacially be noted that the Crown Agents
have
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