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*in the section between Aberdeen and Deep Water Bay an important

sanitary reform, for part of the scheme is to fill up and turf

over the festering inlet to which the leading medical men of

the Colony point as the source of Malaria which has so long

marred the health of Aberdeen and the neighbourhood of Maga-

zine Gap. I have nothing but the good of the community at

heart, and I emphatically state that if you believe medical

testimony it is your duty to decree that this section be the

first taken in hand"

3. It seems to me that Government having

voted a moiety of the whole fund, are more deeply interested

in the matter than any individual subscriber and are therefore

in a position to request the Chairman of the officially appoint-

ed Committee to call a meeting to reconsider the resolution

said

which it is, at present binds the hands of the Committee to a

course of action entirely opposed to the wishes of the majority

of the subscribers. I venture to suggest this course as a means

of ascertaining the views of those concerned.

4. I also think it would be desirable while

His Excellency Major-General Black remains with us, to have

the question of the constructionof a road round Mount Davis the question of the construction of

discussed from a military point of view.

5. The best season for road-construction work

is the present, labour is abundant and it seems a pity that

money

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