CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12] — Page 636

sueder date 26th April 1884 ( a copy of Which litter " is enclosed) and expressed my willingness &

be heard, and I was finally heard on the 122 May 1884, when the Commission received my evidence in writing and examined one i permitting me to take down the evidence in full by my shorthand writer, a printed copy of which I afterwards sent to it and a copy

& Enclose herewith.

letter

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2. the 19th $13258

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In your a " Board of Assessors" had been appointed to consider the conditions upon which the leases should be extended. – While giving evidence before the Board I asked if it was a Board of Assessors as it had been called by the Colonial Secretary, of Enquiry

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or a Commission

or " Committee of Revision as they had called themselves. The Chainman said it is a " Commission of Enquiry" file sorry The appointment of the Commission was river gazitted and its name and powers- do not appear to have been clearly understood There seemed to one to be no doubt that either the new leases would be indefinitely deferred Or that the assessment would be at such an

a Rurais enormous rental for