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righty dollars

A

month.

8. Although any plain duty has

at the expiration of

this

called upon me, the six months, to report apon matter, I cannot do so without expressing my great regret that it

should be from myself a

a recommcudation

should rucanate leading to detach Mr. Charles Food from this Department : it must however have become quite

as evident to the Executive within the

last two

A

years

as it has to me

that

a gentleman of her Ford's professiona repirations was sadly out of place

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in the constrained and narrow-

Sphere represented by the ordinary

care under instructions

of a

Thirteen.

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it would not be -

him to undertake at

• garden and possible for reduced pay

the duties

of the working

gardener described in paragraph & I

have no alternative but to apply for

A Alw haw.

9.

I may add that the project

for mereasing the yearly tree planting

over the island, recently submitted to this Excellency the Governor, would not, if carried out necessitate auch increased European supervision, that obtainable from the framed and intelligent native staff of Foresters, aided by convict labour under

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personal management and controt being sufficient for all purposes.