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Extract from a letter from Mr.F.J.Waring to Crown Agents

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13th February 1911

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Paragraph 2 of His Excellency the Governor's

despatch of the 16th November reads as follows:-

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"I would invite your attention to the passages marked A

"in the annexed copy of a minute by the Director of

"Public Works dated 17th June 1910. It would see that

"Mr. Chatham's views and statements were not accurately

"represented by Mr.Wari ng who would seem to have endeavoured

shift the responsibility for delay on to 'r Chatham's

"shoulders" In the copies of correspondence which you

have sent me, and which in accordance with your request I

now return, I can find no passages marked A in the minute

referred to, but presume that the se passages are the lust

three paragraphs of it. If this be so I would point out

that the words "which you desired should remain in abeyance

"until your arrival in London early next month" inadvertently

appeared in a private letter written by me to Mr. Chatham,

and that he inhisreply stated that the interview in question

had been sought on my own initiative, this you will observe

is borne out in the copies of the correspondence with Mr.

Chatham which in accordance with your request I am now sending

to you and to show that I had no wish to misrepresent the

matter in any way I would refer you to my report to you of

the

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