STATEMENT OF AUTHORITIES for
incurring ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE for
the Year 1876.
Clause Mr. 4 in Dispatch No. 133 of 11 October 1875.
153 13092
75
441
Extracts from the Surveyor General's
Report regarding Estimates for Works
and Buildings 1876
6. Maintenance of Waterworks
$8000.
In my detailed Survey Report on
the Water Supply of Victoria, I pointed
out that if yearly grants for the cleaning and relaying of the mains were continued, the burden of the heavy outlay under this head originally
included in the Estimate for
New water works, might be spread
over a number of years to the relief
and convenience of the Colony.
I have therefore in spite of its
magnitude