CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6] — Page 579

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of Mr Price, the Surveyor= General of this Colony- -resignation which he has

tendered on

the

a

ground of

failing health and the

other reasons contained in

his letter to

Ine

of the 22nd

Enclosur QQrd

of May last, copy of which may

is enclosed.

2

Though the annexed Enclos

medical certificate gives

no

pe of Mr Price's sufficient

recovery of

This health to

enable him to resume the

duties.

189

5th June, 18

duties

573

of his office, I should

under ordinary circumstances have preferred to grant to him the long leave of absence

to which his service has so

well entitled him, and on

the chance, however remote,

of his being able to resume

it, to keep

his

post

in the

charge of an acting officer. But there being

120

one inL

-the Colony, other than he, to whom I feel justified entrusting the "Surveyor-

General's

in

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