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more convenient

opinion it would be

office of Government Marine

if

the

Surveyor

were

made.

a

branch of

the Harbour Master's Department.

I have been compelled to give

Mr Brewer one month's leave

as

ke

has had a sunstroke, and arrangement has been made for the performance of his duties by Captain Burnie, Agent for Lloyds and by Mr. Williams Inspector of Machinery, Naval Yard, neither of whom is in the employ of Government and consequently there

this

is

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is no control over them as there

would have been if this office had been subordinated to that of the Harbour Master. The collection of fee being entrusted to a clerk in the Harbour Department is another

reason.

one

2.

why there should be but Department.

As regards private

work I think that the English

Your

practice referred to in Lordship's despatch No 139% of 297th_

Frene last should be followed, and that the Government Marine

Surveyor