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Victoria Club Castlereach Str:
Sydney 30 Dec.r 1859.

My dear Sir.

I send fr your perusal
the accompanying letter from my
young friend, W. R. Crummer,
who wishes to obtain employment
in the Survey Department at Brisbane
and I should feel obliged by your
endeavours to forward his views.

He is the eldest son of Major
Crummer, late of the 28th Reg't, and
now Police Magistrate at Port
Macquarie and who, by the bye,
married a Greek lady when he was
stationed at Corfu.

I believe sir George Bowen
knew my cousin Sir John Young
when