CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8] — Page 467

again reconstituted by the withdrawal of the so-called subcontracter, and "the substitution.

un-official member

in his place" Your request

recommendations

Committee

may

the

of an

members

Council

by

AU

that

to the number

462

which

any of its

make, will

necessarily

derive weight in proportion.

the

the weight

making the several

recommendations, but solely from

we have

"The lake

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the

ground

of any practicable value",

the Committee must

a majority

Amherst

contain

7

un-official

Gov

The Governor is at a

loss to imagine by what process

of reasoning you

have

arrived at this astonishing

conclusion. It is the more

extraordinary because

subsequent letter

of yours

shows that

had you

grasped the

fact that the Committee

would

have no power to decide

anything, and

is strictly limited

to enquiring and

the

good

that its functions

are

ending.

that

any

revision

dating

It obviously follows

Z.

of

which the

recommendations may severally

contain.

You have practically

informed the Government

the public.

(P

Than

you

have

on one occasion that suggestions to make which are feasible and which would enable very important

reductions to be made in the

expenditure of the Colony,

apparently of

you are

of opinion that you can propound those suggestions only through

the