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some alterations at the
and form former Building to make it available. for the Harbour Master's office, as well as convert the old office and residever of the Harbour Master into a Civil Hospital.
Sundry repairs Buildings I had also to provide for after the storms of the last season.
to Government
Additional Trees were also
| lanted in several parts of the
lity, and
although every care
was devoted to the new ones as well
and
as to the old I regret to observe how severely they suffer from the wilful acts of Chinamen Sailors, sometrines in pulling away and stealing the strutor breaking the branches, andifor
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worse
stripping the bark off for
The consequence
Medicinal purposes.
is that it is impossible for them
to thrive as they shouls, and intel
urre
aren
some severe punishments. inflicted, or the Police on duty vigilant, the damager complained of musto be of annual occurrence. Srinilar damages. occur to trees beyond the limito of the lity and which the Police naturally cannot prevent, but a far more injurious process is still mirepressed in the Island, vaz . _ that of burning the brushwork on the sides of the Hills. in every direction, thereby destroying the natural growth of work ~ indigenous to the climate and
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