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and in view

view of the

of the very

sume which will

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on

require to be spent them, I of opinion that

an

no consideration of saving-

should stand in the

salary way of the selection of the

best available candidate.

8. Before closing this despatoh, I feel it to be my duty to draw Your Lordship's attention to the special claims of Mr Price to the consideration of oter

Majesty

much

Majesty's Government. I had already before my arrival in the Colony heard. in his favour both in Your Lordship's Department and

very

elsewhere; and I am

to way

bound

that what I have

seen of

him and his work

since I came here have

assed even

the

greatly surpassed high expectations thus formed. I imagine there

Never

torte a

public officer,

to whom it could be more

aptly