14. condition of the Public Works at the end of Primary, for, however incredible it may appear after all that has passed, I have not yet received from him the return due for March.
15. The utility of those documents is at once apparent, especially the Form showing the progress of the various Public works on hand, the original Estimate for each, the expenditure to date, and the balance remaining. The latter had been ordered some two years previously - December 1869 - and on my departure from the Colony, Mr. Mooran appears to have at once dropped it. We have since endeavored to make out a plea that the return in question was intended solely for my personal information. There is, however, no foundation for such an assertion. Half a dozen similar returns in the Colony might be withheld on a like plea because nearly that number have been drafted by myself, or remodelled with a view to rendering them more simple and compendious. Were it not that the requisition for each ensuing month's expenditure must be produced before payments are passed by the Auditor,
16. The enclosed letter from the Colonial Secretary, written by order of The Lieutenant Governor last October, is a strong proof of the difficulty which the Executive had in extracting...