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text;. If I had received instructions I fran Mr Vilson to take the works in charge and had plaud then under his

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gidly the truth is, as I have already stated to His Excellency and M. C.C

Smith - M. Prestage got his instructions to make these repairs from the Surveyor Gurnal himself: this I belive Mr Prestage had not the

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to own;

aving to his previous misstatement

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to His Excellency on the subject, dare not contradict himself by so doing. Mr Wilson in his letter of the Th thay 1868 (N:85) devis

this and asserts that "the Clerk of Works had

received no instructions

on

a) munos

the subject direct from himself." (se paragraph (). This is incorrect for it is contradicted by randum in his now hand-writing. I refe to this entry in the Report Book of the Clust of Works respreding these identical repairs, which is

follows_ "the reef has still to be parited, the underside of the tiles had better be painted at the same

time 8.4.68"

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Now the fact of this witry proves

conclusively that Mr Wilson and not I, had charge of the worth, surely if they