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should be carried out.
The Company in due time submitted a plan for approval which was laid before the Executive Council on the 25 January, and having received the signature of my Predecessor, was returned to the Company and they proceeded. When about 100 feet of the Pier had been finished the first opening for the brab was made, and it was seen that instead of being forty feet - it measured only twenty-two feet in breadth. Engineering advanced, and the Specifications which had not been supplied, were called for, and examined. It then appeared that the Plan only provided for openings of twenty-five foot each, and that, consequently, the Company were justified in the course which they had adopted.
The Specifications were laid before the Executive Council, and I learnt that in so far as the General, the Acting Attorney General, and Mr Cecil Smith were concerned (who attended the Council when the Plan was signed) their concurrence had been given in the belief that the openings were to be of forty feet, each, and that explanation a statement was made at the Meeting relative to the expression...