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13 JUN 98

Your Most Obedient Humble Servant,

Black Major General, Administering the Government.

sir,

Public Works Office.

4th. April, 1898.

As the negociations for the resumption of

Marine Lots Nos. 20 & 21 on behalf of the Admiralty, have now

been brought to a successful issue, I have the honour to re-

quest that the services which I rendered in preparing the

necessary valuation may be recognised.

My reasons for making this request are that

the work, being on behalf of the Admiralty, may fairly be re-

garded as outside my ordinary duties as Acting Director of

Public Works, and, further, that it had to be undertaken at a

period of exceptional pressure and was performed antirely outside the recognised official hours.

Mr.Leigh, who acted as my colleague in making the valuation, has received a fee of $500 for his services and I would point out that, besides other matters, upon me de- volved the additional duty of examining the records of all

former negociations regarding the resumption of this proper-

ty.

That the result of the present negociations

must be regarded as very satisfactory may be gathered from

the fact that in 1893 Mr. Sharp, the owner valued the property

The Hon.R.D.ORMSBY *

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Director of Public Works.

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