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clearly

indicates in his

Memorandum that considerable

ecor

conorny

carr

be effected in the

subordinate Staff of both

Departments.

In the Engineering.

Staff

car

only

at present point

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339

I am aware of the

correspondence which won peace

in the summer of 1889.80

the separation of the Water

Distribution and

regarding

Dracirage Works

from

the

Department of

the -

Surveyor General,

A

propome

: to the suving of the salary of the

Resident Engineer, but I feel convinced that Mr. Cooper would

be able to effect corwiderables

reductions in it in the course.

little time, as opportunities

of a

offered.

Ma

19

which Sir C. W. Des Voeux (mi his.

(743) despatch Nr 225 of the 15th of duly

of that year)

year) at first opposed,

but afterwards acquiesced in,

brat I

submit that the circum-

stances are

LAV et

entirely altered,

and that the objections which

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