CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3] — Page 278

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aside, it appears to me that the case

for admitting an unofficial element

into the Executive Council is thereby

strengthened, because for the future

the sooner we recognise the principle

that the Colonial Government is also

the Municipal authority, the better it

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will be for all parties, and that there.

Of opinions that

fore,

representatives of the class of

leading residents who would ordinarily

have seats on a municipal Board, have

a special claim to a voice in the ad-

ministrative organ of the Colonial

Government, in other words, in the Exe-

cutive Council.

In your despatch No.133 of

the 5th of June 1894, you expressed

yourself as not unfavourable to such a

concession, and you added that, as

indeed I should have expected, you al-

ready to some extent, and informally,

admit

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