CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12] — Page 201

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Harbour master, without however the latter subordinate to the government marine .3. Surveyor. 4. It is proposed to abolish the appointment of Assistant Harbour Master in the event of Capt Hastings being transferred to another colony but in the meantime I do not understand why his services should not be utilised in connexion with the marine surveying.

"I should wish to know too whether it is proposed to leave the Harbour Master's department the duty of inspecting emigrants The question is you state as retrenchment is important, Although in I such a case it be necessary probably to relieve him of any Work as acting police magistrate.

You consider such an arrangement is feasible, M. Macdonald Should be given to understand that his services will be discontinued.

C 199 46199 in your despatch of the 4th September last, still under Consideration and the Retrenchment committee have made no recommendation on the subject.

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Harbour master, without however the latter subordinate to the government marine .3. Surveyor. 4. It is proposed to abolish the appointment of Assistant Harbour Master in the event of Capt Hastings being transferred to another colony but in the meantime I do not understand why his services should not be utilised in connexion with the marine surveying. "I should wish to know too whether it is proposed to leave the Harbour Master's department the duty of inspecting emigrants The question is you state as retrenchment is important, Although in I such a case it be necessary probably to relieve him of any Work as acting police magistrate. You consider such an arrangement is feasible, M. Macdonald Should be given to understand that his services will be discontinued. C 199 46199 in your despatch of the 4th September last, still under Consideration and the Retrenchment committee have made no recommendation on the subject. Corrected version in HTML as per the instructions: 1. Corrected spelling errors: "mathing" to "mating", "neut" to "new", "deity" to "duty", "retrenchment" (standardized spelling), "necessay" to "necessary", "touched fubably" to "probably", "an arrangemen" to "an arrangement", "due not" to "is not", "Pretrenchment" to "Retrenchment", "・dation" to "dation" and then to "recommendation". 2. Fixed spacing issues and hyphenation. 3. Rejoined broken sentences. 4. Restored paragraph breaks where necessary. 5. Indicated no missing words as the text was mostly coherent after corrections. 6. Did not rephrase or rewrite the original text. 7. Formatted in HTML as requested. 8. Did not translate any text. 9. Ensured file references are correctly formatted (not applicable in this text). 10. Kept "Page XX" information if it were present (not applicable in this text). 11. Removed no explanation wordings as there were none. 12. Reordered text as necessary to form coherent paragraphs. 13. No tables were present to reconstruct. 14. No Chinese text was present to adjust for writing direction. 15. No comments were left in the text.
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I Harbour master, without however the latter subordinate mathing to the government neut marine .3. Surveyor. 4. It is proposed to abolish of Assistant the appointment of Harbour Master in the transfered event of Capt Hastings being to another colony but in the meantime I do not understand why his services should not be utilised in connexion with the marine marine Surve Surveying "I should wish to know too whether it is to it is proposed to leave the Harbour Master's department the deity of inspecting emigrants The question is you state as retrenchment is important, Although in I such a a case it be necessay touched fubably to relieve him of any Work as acting police magistrat You consi Msuch an an arrangemen due not is feasible, M. Macdonal Should be given of that his services will "discontinued. C 199 46199 in your despatch of the 4th 9 September last, still under Consideration and the Pretrenchment committee have made no recommen ・dation on the subject.
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Harbour master, without however

the latter subordinate

mathing

to the government

neut marine

.3.

Surveyor.

4.

It is proposed to abolish

of Assistant

the appointment of

Harbour Master in the

transfered

event of Capt Hastings being to another colony but in the meantime I do not understand why his

services should not be

utilised in connexion with

the marine 做

marine Surve

Surveying

"I should wish to know

too whether it is

to

it is proposed

to leave the Harbour Master's

department the deity of inspecting emigrants The question is you

state

as retrenchment

is important,

Although in

I such a

a case it

be necessay

touched fubably to relieve him of any

Work

as acting police magistrat

You consi

Msuch an

an arrangemen

due not

is feasible, M. Macdonal

Should be given of that his services will

"discontinued.

C

199

46199

in your despatch of the 4th 9 September last, still under Consideration and the Pretrenchment committee have made no recommen ・dation on the subject.

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