CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 146

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add that the lines of the

Bill

were

decided

on in

the Excontive Council, as -

will appear from the enclosed copy of a resolution

of the Connoil

on

the

subject; that Mr Keswick and D. Hokai supported the Bill in its passage through Council; that the fact of its being a mail was not sufficient

why at

any rate

day

reason

D. Ryrie should not have

been

Enel: 5 20thapril 18911.

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been present at the 2nd -

Reading; and that although

Mr. Whitehead was not

Mas to Excepting

perishable cargo

stoich wa changed from Just testery.

present, his two principle

objections to the Bill as

+ forth in a letter (copy enclosed) which appeared in

onel: Cryset

may

1891

the Press

on

the 5th ultimo

were made the subjects of alterations in the draft.

Bill.

8.

I do not think

therefore that there are

adequate grounds for the

objection

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