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74 45 Gold Commr Office Palmerston Novr 24th N3
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To The Hon the Secretary for Works & Mines
JWS[?] 13.1.74
Sir I have the honor to infom you that I have drawn one[?] char[?] £ 50 upon you for Fifty pounds __ for winter quarters for myself and Staff together with a storeroom for the rations. The storeroom is built of logs and watertight and will be under lock and Key. I hope you will not consider that I have spent too much upon my quarters, but it is very difficult to get men to work at all and none will work for less than
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£1 per day not even the Chinamen. Gold is still being got by the men who are at work, in large quantities but many men are away at the Endeavour + Etheridge. trying to get rations. A man was speared a day or two ago, he cannot recover the Dr says, but may linger for a few days - I fear many more lives will be lost, the blacks appear to be about the worst and most deter mined I have come across - nearly all the drays are stopped on the road for want of feed for the cattle. No rain has fallen yet, but soon will, as it threatens for it daily - prices are still the same as detailed in my last, Sawn timber is 1/6 per foot of nine inches broad, and nails are 5/- per lb,
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I have seen 1/- a piece offered for and refused for horse shoe nails— I have the honor to be Sir your most Obt Servant Howard St George Gold Commr