From Edmund FitzGibbon   1 December 1858

Town Clerk's Office.

Town Hall, Melbourne

1st December 1858.

Sir

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this days date1 referring to the abuse of the permission given for persons to bathe in the river Yarra near to the Botanical Gardens before 6 o'clock […]2 daily— I beg to apologise for not having sooner informed you in reply to your letter of the 29th ultimo3 that the suggestion therein contained that notice boards should be erected stating the hours fixed for bathing could not be acted upon until the Bye Law of the City Council fixing the hours should not only be passed but come into legal operation.

I will this morning bring the subject under the special attention of the Public Works Committee of the City Council and trust to receive authority for the adoption of such measures as shall effectually check the nuisance to which you have called my attention.

I have the honor to be

Sir

Your most obedient Servant

E. G. Fitzgibbon

Town Clerk.

 

Dr Mueller

Government Botanist4

1
M to E. FitzGibbon, 1 December 1858.
2
two illegible words.
3
M to E. FitzGibbon, 29 September 1858.
4
See also M to E. FitzGibbon, 13 January 1859.

Please cite as “FVM-58-12-01c,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 16 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/58-12-01c