[With reference to Hon Robert Simsons notice requesting fences along St Kilda Road]1
It is probable that M had known of a question that Robert Simson intended to ask in the Legislative Council. On 23 May, Simson 'asked the Minister of Customs whether it was the intention of the Government to put up a new fence along the St. Kilda road on the western side of the reserve known as the Government Domain, before the valuable trees planted there had been destroyed by stray cattle or otherwise?' The minister replied 'that provision was made for the purpose in the Estimates now before the Legislative Assembly' (Victoria, Parliamentary debates [Hansard]. Session 1871, p. 303).
In M to E. FitzGibbon, 6 April 1871, attention was drawn to the 'defective state of the fences from the Barracks to Princes Bridge'.
Letter not found; item is a register entry only, of a letter dated 18 May 1871.
Please cite as “FVM-71-05-18,” 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