State Library of NSW
is ? of him by any of the other residents. We often have a civil growl, i am quite sure ? ushers me out of the way but at the same time would wish me to remain for i believe he fully appreciates my services as i am about the only one of his subs he can send away on work that he would otherwise have to go and do himself. The real fact is i have to do assistant Engineer duty for overseers pay then ? being up tp surveying and having a thorough knowledge of the bush and the District generally, why as he is deficient of these matters. I have him at ? own price as all things ? needed ? and this touches his dignity ? ? He will of course find the difference when i leave for all the other subs are strangers and little better than than copying clerks, for there is not one who knows the right end of a ? Theodolite or anything else. On this account i am always away at some little ? ? and ? hunting. Now this neighbourhood is a ? of the ? in which i use ? spend some portion of my time ? is but a succession of Ranges Swamps broken gullies without an acre of good or clear
This page has its status set to Ready for review and is no longer transcribable.