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properly be levied without
the
any
undue pressure upon Property Holders in the Colony
It is time that the times are
not altogether favourable for proposing increased taxation, although prospects are more hopeful, business is at present very
dull
Yet
I have
no doubt that if the
modified scheme now
proposed
proves
to be
successful
as anticipated, the slight additional burden referred to will be borne not unreasonably by the Ratepayers
Should Your Lordship
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approve, therefore, of the suggestions
and recommendations contained in
this Despatch, I shall be prepared
to introduce the
necessary
Ordinance
providing for the imposition of
an increased Water Rate and
raising the necessary Loan.
In conclusion, I beg to
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draw Your Lordship's special attention to the elaborate plans which have been prepared in the Survey Department to
accompany Mr Price's Report.
They reflect the highest credit
not
only upon
that
officer but
upon his subordinates, and when
taken together with the Report - both preliminary and final - they
indicate
very clearly
that