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By these means Australia would gradually build up a 

 solid, authoritative, and complete foundation upon which 

 Australia's historian, when he eventuates, would be enabled 

 to construct an historical fabric worthy of our Common- 

 wealth, and worthy, too, of those indomitable spirits who, 

 preceding us, have shaped for us so goodly an heritage. 



CONCLUSION. 



It is impossible to conclude this paper without 

 making reference to the interest, no less than the 

 courtesy and kindness, of the Honourable the Premier of 

 Tasmania (Sir Walter Lee) in regard to its subject matters. 

 The Government of which Sir Walter Lee is Premier has 

 taken a keen interest in the Historical Records of the State, 

 and has kindly conceded to me the privilege of committing 

 to paper for the first time in the State's History the facts 

 concerning Tasmania's Records, set out here. I feel this to 

 be a great boon. The Under Secretary (Mr. D'Arcy Addi- 

 son, I.S.O., M.V.O.) and Mr. Charles F. Seager (Acting 

 Under Secretary) have been equally sympathetic. 



It only remains for me to express the hope that, in 

 the not far distant future, the secrets held latent in Gov- 

 ernment Vaults will be unveiled for the credit of the giants 

 whose doings the Records chronicle, and the profit of those 

 of this generation who tread the tracks they hewed out for 

 us with so much labour. 



