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tine is invariably sccupied in my office similarly to the office hours of all

all other Public servants

and in addition to this same the

only officer

who has work added

to that. I had to design the work to be performed and arrange its various details, and after that superintend its actual execution without a

single assistant to my place during sictiness,

take

or use his

eyes

mine were

on the works while

employed at the desk ; it is from these causes that work has been occasionally all excented,

airs

or repairs

are not made as efficiently as they should be, the fault is not mine but that of the system

The works I have to carry.

are separated pregnently miles a sunder, and in summer I may have an hour morning.

arrd

evening to survey them or - examine the work,

work performed between those periods, and if a

chinaman can, he will cheat,

be it for account of Public Works or for the ordinary necessaries of life.

Under these circumstances

an Oversees

His lucellency was pleased first- to place at my disposal an of Works, Mr. Scott, to whom I gave the charge of the convict labour and employed him as cirk also in the office to assist Mr. Power and then two Chinese Overseersi

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of the latter was immediately

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