go in case of Defence Votes. Can you give me any idea what amount you may have authorised on road works in the North, which may be chargeable on the £30,000 vote? I have asked Ormond to let me have an estimate of what he is doing on roads so you need not include that. We were greatly annoyed here, and so was Ormond to hear that Firth had been meddling again, and at a most critical moment. And I cannot guess what Pollen can be thinking of to agree that no force should be moved against Te Kooti, If I had been in Pollen's place, when such a request was made, I would have told Firth that a force would be sent against