It is expected that Dr. Alexander will be able to let him live in private lodgings, though still under surveillance and under his medical care. It was quite evident that official and A.C. associations made him worse as when we got him to the Hutt for a couple of days he improved wonderfully. I have taken a great liberty about wh. I hope you won't be very angry - namely, to return a voucher which you had approved for reconsideration. But the case seems to me so clear against the man (Watson of Tauranga) that I am sure you could not have had it properly explained. So I have sent all the papers in the case wh. will bear out the history of it that I have given. When you get to Napier Ormond will tell you of the mess I have got into with my Poverty Bay run. Fortunately for me sheep farmers coming to grief is not an entirely unknown phenomenon, and bad as the compromise I have offered is it is better than a great many, and