No curse, and No
Co
the same.
Is
conveying you approval of
appears that this Estimate
was sent home greatly unintentionally
with other Estimates in my despatch
No
of 16 of 14th April last - so little had I intended it that the original copy of
the Report and Estimate was
Kept in a
drawer in my office in order that I
5336
500
immediately required - In some-
instances the items shown in the original
Estimate were reduced and in others
additions were
3.
made.
The result was that in June last
a revised Estimate for $2000 was arrived at, which I caused to be substituted for the original Supplementary Estimate
M 29 of 1866 not knowing at that time that it had
gone home.
My despatch 259 of 15
might consider
before the
work was
4
7497
June
might not be
gave my
possible or additions advisable-
regularly undertaken whether reductions
after having given the subject one consideration in conjunction with Mr Wilson the Surveyor General I became of opinion that a
a sum
of $2000, would
be requisite to cover the cost of work
for requiring
the
expenditure and in taking its consideration that despatch I hope your
Lordship
will observe that $1500 of the
expenditure therein shown is comprised
in
the sanction conveyed in
your despatch