CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12] — Page 39

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his arrival, and I feel sure that his Letter is the secule of evrefid and. Conscientious Consideration.

4. Your Loxship may probably consider after a femei of the Surveyor General's Letter,

that there are duties throm efon his Department, which do not properly belong to it; but all the duties specified. muse be performed by some body and having regard to the peculine Constitution of society and the available projesional aßis tāne.

in this distant and isolated

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Colony- I cannot see any Mary 6 better.

arrangement..

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to have

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really competent and responsible.

head

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so many

and various

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details.. It would be needles.

occupy

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Mour Lordship's time in

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fan't finding with the Characier, "Cost, and execution of many

fublic works in the Colony. Al

dau,

and

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exception

which be taken to them, has in my opinion arisen from attempting the impossibility of doing good work with an insufficient styf of inefficient officers.-

5.

"I entirely concur with the Surveyor General as to the inexpediency of being in any