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A FURTHER REASON FOR OUR WISHING TO TAKE POSITIVE AND

VISIBLE ACTION IS THAT LOCAL INTERESTS HERE ARE GETTING RESTIVE. AGAIN. UNLESS THEREFORE YOU WOULD SEE DISADVANTAGE IN THE COURSE PROPOSED, FROM OUR POINT OF VIEW THERE WOULD BE MERIT

IN PURSUING IT RATHER THAN IN DOING NOTHING.

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