Chief Secretary's Office
Melbourne, 5th April 1895.
Circular
Sir,
I have the honor by direction to inform you that the Government consider that fires should not be regularly used except during the months of June, July and August, being lighted in May and September only in exceptionally cold weather, and to request that you will give instructions in your Branch accordingly.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
MS is a circular sent to the heads of 15 sub-departments within the Chief Secretary's Department, including to the Government Botanist. The file copy is unsigned, but copies sent out would have been signed by Topp as Under Secretary.
Please cite as “FVM-95-04-05a,” 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