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epential want.
H. In Charitable assistance to the
Native population and the maintenance of Institutions
for
the diminution of Physical want and suffering amongst
them.
M. It is somewhat necessary however to pursue the subject further at present as I must obviously
recur to it in connection with the
ensuing Estimates, when though I shall adhere
to Your Lordship's instructions not to include
in the Estimates the proceeds of the Licence
Fund
Revenue available for general purposes. I presume I must show what
assistance
is in certain matters given
by
that fund to this Colony.
12. Thus if the proposed Police
expenditure
were
to amount to $160,000.
I would only ask for a vote for $120,000.
in
a
note
stating that $40,000
over
the Police expenditure of 1866 would be defrayed from the special fund. I presume this course is not likely to be objected to by Your Lordship for I am most anxious to deal with the fund in question in such
a manner
as
to commend
itself to general approval on the merits.
13. It is true that without abandonment of a policy which has brought most useful practical results I cannot avoid the embarrassment occasioned by the existence of the fund. Nevertheless with