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his mind to him, any such misunderstandings will be

removed.

Paragraph 8 deals with another point on which

we think that Mr. Eyes should be allowed to give his views

and explanatima directly to the Governor.

in question accompanied by the plan was sent by us in the

usual course to your office on July 11th, and was ve

understand forvarded to the Honourable the Officer

wininistering the Goverment by the Colonial Office on

July 19th, and should therefore have arrived in the Celany

about August 17th. By your permissim copies of tho

report and plan were sent to Mr. Eves for his information

with our flying seal letter No.66 dated August 8th.

now seema

There

however, to be some doubt whether the plan in

question was forwarded by you with the letter, for some

'as made" drawings which should have been sent with the

same letter did not apparently leave by the same mail.

If this be 30,

it is possible taat without the plan Mr.

Eves might have misread our letter. We therefore think

that this may be the cause of Mr. Evas misapprehending

and consequently misrepresenting our proposals in his

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