officials he is touchy - and lately Porter has employed a surveyor named Drummond to lay off roads in Bold's district - Now I can assure you the work wd. be ten times better done and more economically under Bold but if it is desired otherwise it would be better to alter Bold's district and let him take only to Poverty Bay including the inland Wairoa road which is now being arranged about. That wd. leave the Ngatiporu roads and Poverty Bay roads for another district and I daresay wd. employ an officer but one could do the lot easily - Please see about this and arrange it - The man Drummond who Porter has employed is thoroughly incompetent - he was employed a year or two ago by me and had to be got rid of for being the most useless and lazy officer I ever had to do with. I think it wd. be a good plan to relieve Bold of all Roads in the Poverty Bay district and Ngatiporou leaving the inland Wairoa to Pov. Bay road