some little time - so far as I can judge however many of them will not be as difficult as was expected. I have got on very well with Gillies so far but of course know exactly what to expect from him - I go north on Thursday to settle about Kawakawa and Northern Roads and shall see Marsden Clarke and make up my mind whether he will do for the work. The Tauranga Road Engineer is here and I find it was high time public works in that district were looked after - no end of dray roads were being commenced to places where there is not the most remote chance in our life-times of a dray going. What I have ascertained makes me very anxious to visit other districts as soon as possible - I think Turner is a good man but he never considered