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aggravated by the great

great distance Colony from the skilled labour market of Europe, and hav

of this

completely

this r

real distraure excludes the Tyłam..

Waterworks from many of

the minor

the

advantages and facilities within reach of similar undertakings wearer house, all truding to facilitate the work of Enginer and to expedite progress. in Jytam

we have to conteud at

the werew

addition, against the more serious difficulty of the continual ill-health of the engaged in boring operations, and it expecially on this seebject in - connexion with the Europeans who

is more

Avera

ougaged

at home for the tunnel,

that I desire now to address you.

Imprimis, I should state

the tunnel works, including Mr Orange, the Resident Enginer, and alle Cook,

the

Foreman Superintendent of alliuers, has

been down with

er, not once but often..

& fever;

Save of the European foremen of

encore.

robust physique escape with slight periodical attacks, but others, who have left, have - according tok " Ayres - received permanent injury to their health The Chûncee workusen have suffered very greatly also, but as they home invariably refused to submit to European medical trictment, propering, when ill, to return: to their native villages

on the mainland

and to place themselves under their own medicine-new, I am unable to

what has been their fate.

In

of this continued

consequerear of this

sickness, which at times has taken the

3.

that

every person connected e

sofar with

the

type