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District Surveyor's Office
Armidale
12th September 1899
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Sir,
I have the honor to forward
herewith a copy of Circular received from
"The Anthropological Society of Australaisa"
which has applied for assistance in collecting
Native names of places in this Colony, with
their meanings, and to request that you
will kindly favour me by affording such
information on the subject as may be in
your possession, so as to assist in the objects
of the Society
I have the honor to be
Sir
your obediant servant
AMMaitland
District Surveyor.
Mr. [?] Chard
Armidale
24 names herewith
I may get some more later on
but thepresent difficulty
is the correct spelling and
meaning to a lot of names known
by sound
To the District Surveyor J. S. Chard
Armidale. Licensed Surveyor
2 Oct. 1900
Armidale