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obvious that to require troops to march such
long.
distances during the unhealthy season here would be directly contrary to the
about $17,000 per annum, so that one
and a half years annual ontlay would the entire expense of
more than
defray
commodious and permanent
Instinctions transmitted in
Your despatch
building
barracks.
of the 26th February.
N 38.
8.
am at a loss to -
7.
1920
conceive why the Colony which emtributes
Moreover I am at a
Neset, as to the cost entailed on W. B.
the Colony by the Barracks, I will now.
wer to undertake
suppose that the Colony the duty of defending the min- and if
I must frankly state that I could not undertake the responsibility with a
card than at least 30
guard
with a les
of the existing
local Police under the direct Supervision of an Europian Inspector. This at three nights in bed would require Minely men- the cost of whom, 3 Sergeants Inspector includest, would be
and an
already £20,000 per
annum to its militang
defences should be saddled with such
a prodigious anvinal onttay, when the Same duty can be so much more.
efficiently and cheaply-discharged by the Military- with a daily guard of
of 10
or 12 min.
The only argument I can
9.
imagine fairly
used
against the propersed.
mode of defending the mint would be some inconvenience to the Military