was the tone of their commmmiz =cations quite that I should had
mayner weighzthezzagortgåzig thic dasvied
but they had nevertheless
valid ground for calling your atten-
tion to the method of supply of
explosives in the particular case.
For the Crown Agents *
A
shmld
♦ let the Secretary of State know
if they find that the Colonial Regula-
tions are not being complied with.
and
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or the
A. I do not find from the correspon-
dence that you are altogether justified in
saying that "unnecessary expense" would have
been incurred by ordering the explosives
through the Crown Agents.
?
I do not read
Mr.Eves minutes as indicating more than that
negligeable
the apparent saving would have been ne
and perhaps unattainable.
4.
Further I desire to observe that
the intervention of the Crown Agents in the
supply of Raiway stores &c. is not based
úpon the idea indicated in paragraph 4 of
your despatch nor
chinor indeed is the consideration
of cost the only reason why
scribed in the
Begula
the course pre-
egulations should be strictly
followed in the case of goods not produced
locally.
Experience has shewn that in the
long run the Crown Agents, buying in a larger
quantibes market and for a far larger elion
than
is possible to any local merchant can as a
3,
for such
Colonial Regulations Nos.379
382 and 383 will shew you the procedure
to be adopted in the matter of obtain-
ing supplies and stores required by
Colonial Governments: and you will
observe that under the se the order
for the dynamite should have been
sent to the Crown Agents.
43.
rule