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expressed in your despatch No. 252 of 3rd August last, that the work of the Harbour Department can be efficiently performed by one

Officer with the assistance of a

Cadet, and with a view to abolish- ing the office of Assistant Harbour

Master I have noted Captain Has- tings name for transfer to em- ployment in another Colony, should

any suitable vacancy occur.

6. With reference to your

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proposal to cut down the cost of

the Observatory, I would remind

you that the staff of the Observa-

tory was recently increased on the

recommendation of, and after ex-

haustive enquiry by, a local Com- mittee. I should therefore be in

any case, opposed to making any

A reduction in the establishment at

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the present time; moreover valuable work appears to have been done by

this office, the importance of

which in the eyes of the Astrono- mer Royal may be guaged from the enclosed letter, and I am not pre- pared to admit that this work is of a kind which is of no special value to the Colony itself.

7. You do not state in what

direction you contemplate making