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Inspecting Engineer of the -

Crown Agents in reply to a letter of the Surveyor-General transmitted in

my despatch

11:203 of 12th June last.

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now have the

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honour to forward a report ___ Enclosure

in

from the Surveyor-General reply to the criticisms of the Inspeating Engineer.

3.

The Surveyor-General

expresses his regret that the Inspecting Engineer should —

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have assumed that his letter

of

3rd March

1889

of 8th

7 June last was intended to impugn the efficiency of

the ins

inspections made

de by

that

Officer. He thought it his-

duty to call the Crown

Agents' attention to the fact that under

tests identical with those that

had been previously applied, certain recent consignments of cement did not exhibit the

same d

appearance

as

previous

consignments, and he observes that he will be placed in a

disadvantageous position if

he