CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12] — Page 193

With regard to wast the Survey or General Say's respecting the Draughtsman, it is desirable that you should Know that

my predecessor

:

affound that officer upon the strongest assurance from a very competent authority that he " is an " excellent dieptoman, makes " Thorony by Justworthing estimates, " and is most careful and " honest in all superintendence:

For Moorson has yet to acquire in Hongkong a repulation for energy and efficiency,

and now that he has in hou Dukes an Assistant who, without Lient. Buckle, murt from

any reflection his previous experience be better fitted than that officer

Civil

for many of the spys of litios that have to be perfonned, I expect that there will be no

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recurrence of such representations.

as for Moorsom has make on this occasion.

I have

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