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from my retirement, for dam not likely to abandon the views I profess to hold

this point ; whatever may temptation that way.

On

lie the

come in.

mny way by the yearly increasing

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office.

It is often

land fees of my the duty of the Surveyor General to stimulate land sales for the legitimate purpox of opening out particular neighbour hood, and at the present moment alone, I have

before proposals of the kind. One is

the Administrator tivo

for

extensive land sales and the

formation of a new suburt with

a view to affording

affording more

building space to the European Community auffering great discomfort

who

are

de

and

from the scarcity of houses another is for the disposal by Leasehold of all the village lands in the Colony Both of these project

would put a very

handsome

Commnission

commission

in the pocket of the Surveyer Several. I think it therefore very

madvisable that the latter should be

hor

-placed in any position so falce,

likely to expose his

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and

motives

and I have

fr misconstruction, and doubt the Secreting of State will.

tro

readily understand why I elect to retinguish a form of emolument that

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ble a qui. Juice.

objectionable I have.

8. J. M. Price

Surveyor General