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I do not find, up to the date of the last mail, that you had taken the action the Government had expected upon previous instructions. I shall hope to hear by the next mail that you have not only reduced your official staff, but actually stopped all lecturing; and that, in the cases of Messrs. G. M. Reed and Clay den, if you have been unable to arrange for terminating the agreements, you will have at any rate arranged to utilize their services in some other way for the period during which the Government is under obligation to pay them. I have, &c, "W. EOLLESTOJT, The Agent-General for New Zealand, London. Minister for Immigration.

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