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to necessitate my ordering the bridge work to be suspended.
On these questions I do not need the opinion of Mr. Eves
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a Member of the Committee, but he will have every
opportunity of stating his case on their report. He does
not hesitate to describe the procedure I have considered
it my duty to adopt as "most objectionable" and "contrary
to instructions" for which I can "plead no excuse in
urgency" (though when I directed him to suspend work on
bridge 4 for two or three days he said it was most urgent
that he should proceed at once without a day's delay) and
adds that Government "has gone cutside the power granted
to it".
3.
Mr. Eves has been treated with
studied consideration, end since I have been in the
Colony has been completely unfettered in regard to all
matters relating to engineering, and as to the Staff and
equipment he may require. I had of late hoped that all
was going on very well on the Railway. Excellent progress
under the very able supervision of Mr. Waite
has been
made with the Tunnel Boring, and since I succeeded in
composing the quarrels between Mr. Eves and Mr. Logan and
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others of his Staff I have had no fault at all to find,
and have had only praise for his work. The present question
is