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dissolved and its members left the Colony I moved the Government to revert to the old original plan of putting the whole of the planting operations under the general supervision of the Public Works Department with the Superintendent to attend to the professional details of the treatment and propagation of plants.
10. My object in this step was not to gratify any personal ambition alleged by Mr Ford, for I had no ambition other than to serve. My object was solely to give the benefit of the assistance of a large and important organization like the Public Works Department with all its appliances, resources, and numerous personnel and with its many facilities for conducting operations on a large scale. By the machinery of the Public Works Department, I aspired to infuse life into the work, to enlarge its sphere, to spread it with a more vigorous hand than had yet been brought to the task.
This would have been, I am still of opinion, the best course, for it would have brought the general scheme of laying out the Island, its roads, works, and plantations under one organization, while Mr Ford's professional knowledge would have been utilized in technical details.
11. Having made this rectification in respect of the motives imputed to me, I must also, before leaving this part of Mr Ford's Report, state that I cannot admit the charge implied in paragraph ... of impeding his progress.
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dissolved and its members left the Colony I moved the Government to pevert to the old original plan of
the planting oper- putting the whole
of ations under the general
qeveral supervision
of the Public Work's Department with the Superintendent to attends to the
profesional details
technical se
of
the treatment and propagation of plants. 10. they object in this step was not to- gratify any personal alleged by mr Ford, for I had
ambition as
ambition other than to ser
- planting hove. My object
more trive
to that
solely
to give benefit of the assistan
all future foush-making the
the assistance of a large and important organization like the Public Work's Department with all it'v appliances, resources, and numerous personnel and with its many faci-
lities
facilities for conducting operations a large scale. B. the machinery of the Public Work's Departmment, I aspired to infuse life into the work, to enlarge it's sphere,
to spread
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vigorous hand than
yet been brought to the task.
by Mr Ford and the foresters, and
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this would have
of opinion been the best for it would have brought the quiral scheme of laying out the Island, its roads, works and plantar-
köns under
one organization while, Mr Ford's professional knowledge
11.
would have been.
the leas....
utilized in technical details.
Having mades this rectification in respect of the motions imputed to me I must also, before leaving this part of Mr. Ford's Report, state that I can- -not admit the charge implied in para
progress. - graph of of impeting his
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