. Melford Cottage, 3rd June/59 My dear MacLean, As I am off to the wilds and may not have an opportunity of seeing you before your return to Auckland I write to say goodbye and God be wi you. Big fish come so seldom to this place that the small fry cannot live on the pickings unless they fire away when ever a chance offers. Will you therefore like a kind friend use your influence towards getting my Father-in-law the appointment which he is seeking after, for did you obtain it for him there would then be a certain means of keeping us all together and of affording to my own dear wife, and myself a Father's roof, close to our own. You can I know well understand how anxious I must feel, and how anxious to leave and , and will therefore I feel assured excause my pressing this matter. I am in hopes, as host of the ''Powers'' can be relied upon to getting something additional to my salary, but I want some advance in office more than salary something to keep me at home. Believe me my dear MacLean, Yours most sincerely, M. Fitzgerald.