CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8] — Page 427

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you were still dissatisfied,

and

you

asked that it~

might be again reconstituted

by the withdrawal of the. Harbour Master, and the "substitution of an unofficial member of Council in his "place"." "Your request" based on the ground that " to be of any practical ~

#

was

value, the Committee ~

must contain a majority of unofficial members. The Governor is at a loss

to

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to imagine by what ~ process of reasoning you can have arrived at this astonishing conclusion. It is the more

extraordinary

because a subsequent

letter of yours shews that you had

had grasped the fact that the Committee

would have no

power to decide anything, and that its functions were strictly limited to enquiring and recommending. It obviously

follows

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