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and expressed the opinion that res provision whatever has been made
for the Cost
of
"the Water works, you and "I regret
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longer withhold
in the Financial
your confidence
financial work that has
occupied my unremitting attention
since I undertook the Government
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the Braya Wall and
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this Colony
Colony two
4.
years ago. I beg leave respectfully to
grave
that I cannot consider the
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as at Aust
and
you
withhold further expression of opinion until you receive due
explanations
3.
on
those various points. I am happy to be able to
give those explanations at once; and I venture to entertain the
hope that
having your
attention
drawn to the real facts you will
point out that there is
a
muisconception, - for which I am in I no degree to blame, _ in the
statement that the proposal as to
of taxation
sopible reduction made in my speech on the Estimates, is apparently based
upon
the large amount of balances
in hand.
5.
My speech on the Estimates