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the impression that some questions were being delayed
conveys
at lir. Chatham's request. This was answered by Mr. Chatham'a letter of the 26th October, and no further reference was made to the matter. I enclose an extract from a letter written by Mr.Waring to us emphatically disclaiming any intention to shift his responsibility, and stating that the passage above referred to was written inadvertently. We think that the real test of Er.Waring's intention in this respect is his official report regarding the delay, written to us on the 10th Fovember 1909, when we had just received the Colony's first intimation that the work was urgently required. A copy of it was sent to the Colony on the 16th November. In it Mr. Waring wrote "in view of your memorandum "of the 28th September last I deemed it advisable to communicate "with Mr. Chatham, the Director of Public Works, and he raised some "question regarding certain details of my design. I considered "the question could be best settled by a personal interview and "it was not until the 3rd instant that this interview took place". This, Hr.Waring's only official statement regarding the delay, certainly shews no desire to evade his responsibility for such time as was lost by his references to Mr. Chatham, The Governor's despatch was written without the actual correspondence between 1r. Waring and Mr. Chatham, and we think that after reading the copies
now enclosed he will probably share our view on this point. Any attempt to repudiate his responsibilities would be so unlike lin Waring that we have felt it due to him to look into this matter
with care.
10.
I need hardly say that we greatly regret the inconvenience,
and