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Report by Mr Thomsett, Harbor Master of Hosting

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I do not see how it is propille

to reduce the Staff of this departiment

either

numerically or by the appointment of a Junior officer at a lower Salary. –

My last Tammi Paport shews the enormous increase to the Nepels arriving and leaving the Colony and there

secus every probability, of labor being added to the department

rather than lepened. The opening of

1

the Jucz Einal has

aiready

had

the

great effect in increasing

numbers of Steamers.

In 1870 I ministered to the

wants of 28,000 Foreign and Chinese.