CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9] — Page 9

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employment of English

Contractors the work should

be done by Chinese

Contractors.

3.

With reference to

the observations made by

Mr. Brown in

16

of

the

paragraph Report, I should

not be disposed to lay down

hard and fast rule

any as to how

Jar

the

regulations

of the service should affect

those who are

employed

in the Praya works. If any

difficulty

difficulty

occurs it

may

then be time to raise the

may

not be

question. It desirable to apply these regulations too strictly to those thus employed, but I should hesitate to say

that in no instance should

the regulations be applicable..

As regards the

4.

question of tenders, there was

a general order issued in 1880 to the effect that for all works which were to

cost