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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9151, 5 September 1888, Page 4

We express our sincere sympathy with Mr. McCallum, the Inspector of Dairies, in his failure of health, which has necessitated, at least for a time, his retirement from his official duties. But there must surely be some error in the statement as forwarded by our special correspondent at Wellington, as to his lectures "in the Waikato and other parts of Auckland" having been indifferently appreciated. When our settlers require castigation we like to do that ourselves, but we bar this slur cast undeservedly upon them. As a matter of fact the settlers in the Auckland district have shown an intelligent appreciation of the importance of such duties as those undertaken by Mr. McCallum, and, we believe, were prepared to welcome him in a manner to which in the South people appear to have been strangers. In fact Mr. McCallum's approach to our district was heralded by intimations of a somewhat sneering indifference to the objects of his mission on the narfc of