subject and he said the weather was very much against him. Certainly that was the case but still better could have been done. I took him over to the Ng[a]rora to see and get a better place but the flood had washed away the place. I was in hope of being fit for the purpose and as the station wool was finished but two or three bales I thought it was better not to shift this season. As I find that next season he must be looked after by someone that has more interest in the place than mere strangers or the fleece wool not gaven to him at all as I believe it was as profitable in the grease as it will be by the way some of it was washed this year. Hector Duff told me that he was going to see to all he was going to send him this year and he also does not believe in his mode of sl..ing the work. I want you quitely to go to the Spit when this last lot goes down and see that it is sampled yourself and particularly see that it is dry when his man was baling it. The other day