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Public Service.

2

My attention has been

thy curwn to this subject by

recently

information which how reached-

me, that contain

officers

in the

Government service, had bun largely

engaged

in land speentation: Such

engagements, Your Lordship will, I

eure, agree

with me in thinking

cannot but unduly occupy

and thought of officers; a

domy.

respects

the time

and are/

in

more undesirable in

this Colony than elsewhere, seeing

that the purchase of land necessarily

involves

no

involves building operations. And,

regards the Public Works Department,

thene

are

special objections of an obvious

enlarge upon

Kind, which I need not enla

here.

3.

Holding these views, Dhad

contemplated making new restrictive regulations on the subject, applying

in

officers,

vome measure to all public off and especially to those of the Works Repartiment; but, to my surprise, no Your Lordship will observe from the

enclosure referred to above, the attorney Ceveral is of opinion that the

Governor