times
a year at stated periods.
Formerly one regular intervals
were observed in the inspections
and a
consequently many of the buildings lapsed into
great
deterioration, necessitating in
instance a supplementary.
bring them
the first
l Dolinate to
into
again
• fair tenantable condition. By the
structure can
neas
can fall
n no
systern
into serious
since it has to
decay).
undergo from basement to attic the scruting of the Tarveyor General or his officers every third month. Though this system may have, as stated, entailed a greater first cost,
it will not lead to a
486
o permanen
addition to the usual annual)
4
expenditure under the Works and Buildings vote.
It should however be borne - in mind that the Legislature has curtailed the usual vote for repairs
to
Buildings during 1873 by $ 2000,
and
that in
in consequence
there
will in all probability be a deficit
of the year
towards the end
andes
this Dead of account entailing) a Supplementary Estimate; my fears as to this are based upon my experience of the bareness of the votes for
· for Repairs to Buildings preceding years which stood at
in