ten years have been introduced into the Government service. I can't beleive that he has wilfully done anything wrong. If he has erred in judgment that is no more than a very great many of our officers have done over and over again - but of even that except in one instance I have seen no proof. I hope that the result of the present enquiry will he to remove from your mind what I cannot but beleive are prejudices, which if you had known more personally of Noake and of his district, would never have found their way into your mind. I send this through Gisborne, as I wish him to