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Colonial Secretary Office Sydney 28th March 1833

No. 33/2066

Sir,

Having submitted to the Governor your letter of the 16th instant No 102. representing that since the departure of the Governor Phillip to Norfolk Island, you have received accounts from Moreton Bay that the Crop of Maize has suffered considerable diminution owing to a long drought, and requesting that the Commandant may be instructed by the Isabella to forward to Norfolk Island nevertheless a full cargo of that Grain as already ordered, as you conceive that if it be necessary to substitute flour for Maize Meal it should be supplied to Moreton Bay as being the Settlement less penal of the two. -

I am directed by His Excellency to acquaint you that there is not that difference in the two Settlements as to render it at all expedient

James Laidley Esqr Deputy Commissary General

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expedient to incur the expense and hazard of removing provisions from one Settlement to another in order to issue a particular ration to the prisoners at Norfolk Island exclusively -

I have the honor to be Sir Your most Obedient Servant