CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12] — Page 319

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Office Int. Sister, the Postmaster General

and Treasurer, I at the same time

requested that your Lordship should await my despatch before proceeding.

to fill the appointment permanently.

2.

My object in making

latter request

im preas

making the

was to enable me to

Your Lordship, that the

present arcumstances of the Colony

argently demand for the Government

>

pressure of numbers upon a narrow

to

Vide foot note. area.

rise to various

is

geving

questions of exceeding complication,

which

for

their satisfactory settlement;

involve an undue strain upon

the Governor, unless he has forme the Colonial Secretary

of considerably

clerical abiti.

ability;

yearly growing

Inore

the assistana

then

while a correspondence

in volume, together

together with

an increasing

number of interviews with

persons

a stronger

man than

has probably

rmer

been required at any for:

period.

The rapid growth of the ~ -population, and the increasing

pressure

Note : In a considerable portion of the town of Victoria the houses

Are

being generally heightened, and the proportion of intrabitants to space, always very great,

lo rioo

probably

even in China.

ar thout any parallel elsewhere,

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