Garden becoming not alone an ornament but of much advantage to the residents of the City
We have ...
(Signed) Chas: Sebes Cleverly, (5) Jas: I. Mackenzie.
members of the Garden Committee.
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(Copy) Memo: by Surveyor General to accompany
Letter from
the Garden Committee to
Colonial Secretary, dated 11th March, 1872.
The expenditure on account of formation of the Public Gardens entrusted to the Committee consisting of Mr. Mackenzie, Mr Walkinshaw and myself
was authorized under Supplementary Report and Estimate No. 4 of 1862, amounting to $20,981. and as stated in the commencement of that Report "the Estimate was brought forward in support of a further charge for the service of the year, a previous expenditure of £310.10.9. or $530.58 having been ...