CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12] — Page 100

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Mr Price should be permitted to retire at once, I think it

would be

Very

-desirable, if Your Lordship should find_

such arrangement practicable, that the officer appointed

should have

a certain period of probation. The long list

provided

of important and expensive Public Works which are pro for in the Estimates about to be forwarded to you for - saustion, renders it of peculiar importance that the Officer

at present in charge of the Worke Department should not only be specially capable, but should have health,

and energy

strength.

such as

to withstand the enervating

ނ

influences of this trying, climate; and the fact of his having such a qualification only be satisfactorily ascertained by experience.

Can

3.

If the salary should

"

prove insufficient to tempt

such a man as

as is required,

at

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