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So the Colenical Secretary, and
and looking to
"Ihe passage in which Sei ettichail thicks-
"I should brave ne etjiction:
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to the work being procented withh, without further reference to me I dd once dracked Elly Bowdler to proceed with the work fortharth and be lost no time mi
doing
"He.
" I . For the previore long etetay at which
"Your lordolup; not unjustly experienos vemo " dissatisfaction, M: Price the Surveyer? General was solely responsite. — His "explanation of why he could not dof "any other work av ling
ao lie had the " repaire of the Praya, to all in brandt brewe " luen submitted to your levitship in former
"dispatebres..............
3. The explanation of Governor Hinnevey at cra
cust expen me the disagreeable claty of acquainting Your Cordship that I never at
any
time" "received from the Governor directly, Hirough the Colonial Secretary, any instructions, verbal or written; official co anofficial te lagin Mre breakwaters. ____
11. I have also to inform Your Lordship that in the absence of any instructions from the Governor to the effect II never at any
time cxpressed to His Excellency my inability to
begin
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6.
begin the breakwater until the Trays Works were finskid, I should however mention that during a criticul period of the monsoon, from June to September 1879, when the houses fronting the sect were still exposed to destructionby a typhoon, by • reason of the incomplete state of the Frauja cmbantement, and at a juncture therefore when the entire attention of Wr. Bowdler the executive officer of the Public Works department- monopolised by this particular work, the -- Governor having called for detailed plans of the proposed
new central School, Preplied in Letter to Dr. Jewart acting Colomal Secretory. requesting that the preparation of the central School, Hospital, and Gaol plane, might be deferred for a brief period of three months when, she probability & a lyphoon would have passed away, and when The temporary pressure on the department could therefore have subsided. My request referred to these plans specially, and it is therefore not wrthient. surprise that I now find it transferred by the Governor to the breakwater also, and that the plea of the Raya tvork is advanced by his
Excellency
on my behalf, I did not proceed with the breakwriter; when as a matter of fact; authority whatsoever for the commencement of the latter even issued from the Governors office
Mo
as the sole reason
why
As I gather furthermore from the printed correspondence that in previous dispatches his Excellency has reported to your lordstup, the same professed inability
on my part to under- take other works besides the breakwater during the entire continuance of the Praya reconstruchow
extending
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