respect to that I see less difficulty on enquiry than when I knew less of the subject. Of course the Bay of Islands Roads will be attended to and I fear from what I can gather Marsden Clarke is not the man for the work. I have a report of his but it is very meagre. Turner the Tauranga Engineer will be here tomorrow when I hope to settle about Works in that district. I thought it best to order him up here to meet me as so much time will be saved. Vogel and I also met Whittaker today and talked most of the subjects over with him as might be expected Whittaker wants some more