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industry, that guide, especially to the earlier operations, the want of 

 which, in a comprehensive and plain form, so often retards in new 

 communities the establishment of industries suited to the climate, and 

 adapted to the means and appliances of the settlers. I now do myself 

 the. honor to inquire whether the Government will be willing (pre- 

 suming that they recognise my fitness for the task) to lend their 

 countenance and aid to the proposal, by having the manuscript printed 

 at, and issued from, the Grovernment Press ? Such assistance by a 

 Colonial Grovernment towards the establishment of a new industry is 

 not without precedent ; and I may be permitted to urge that I cannot 

 conceive a more useful way in which to apply the Grovernment Press, 

 than in the promulgation of practical guides to the colonists in new 

 occupations, calculated to increase their individual prosperity, and thus 

 aid in the more rapid settlement, and enhance the material wealth of 

 the Colony. 



I have the honor to be, 

 Sir, 



Tour obedient Servant, 



LEWIS A. BEKNAYS, E.L.S., 



Vice-President. 



The Hon. A. H. Palmer, Esquire, M.L.A., Colonial Secretary. 



Colonial Secretary's Office, 



Brisbane, 22nd April, 1872. 



SlE, 



With reference to your letter of 1st March last, relative to 

 the introduction of the Olive tree into Queensland, for the purposes of 

 commerce, in which you point out the necessity of placing within 

 reach of persons interested in its cultivation, a Handbook containing 

 information on the planting and treatment of that tree, and intimating 

 that you are at present engaged in the preparation of a pamphlet on 

 the subject, especially intended as a guide to the Queensland agricul- 

 turist, I am directed to inform you that the Colonial Secretary will be 

 happy to advance the object you have in view, calculated to encourage 

 and promote the formation of a new industry likely to be valuable to 

 the Colony, by authorising the printing and publication of your 

 proposed pamphlet at the Grovernment Printing Office. 



I have the honor to be, 

 Sir, 



Your most obedient Servant, 



H. H. MASSIE, 



Under Secretary. 



L. A. Bernays, Esquire, F.L.S., Brisbane. 



Had I not felt convinced that without some guide placed within 

 their reach, the farmers of the Colony would be unwilling even to make 

 the attempt to establish the important industry which I am endeavoring 



