CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11] — Page 369

as

opinion that it was desirable to add to the staff of the Public Works Department, Assistant Surveyor General, an officer of considerable experience to fill the place of the Surveyor General " the event of the absence or illness of the latter, and who would be able to - relieve the Qurveyor General of a considerable portion of his Excentive duty, I have the honour to transmit

for

luchar copy of a letter

Anel.

25th Augt

1891.

366

for Your Lordship's consideration

copy of a letter from the late Mr Brown in which he

urges compliance with Your Lordships suggestion.

On a previous

occasion Mr. Brown made

a similar recommendation to Government, but it would appear that as he was not able then, as in his more recent letter, to show

a

countervailing reduction of : The Staff, his proposal did.

not