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practically projects
no connection between the two
and that they could not be amalgamated. The question
public in the
the
came
before
in the Legislative Council on the 10th of September when I reiterated the opinion of the Government that the Fire tanks scheme should be dealt with
:: as a
thus
part of the general water supply question. One of the local papers reports my
observations on this point :
"But upon this question of dealing with the two matters together he hoped
soon to have a report from the Surveyor
General. From the last minute the
"Governor saw, Mr Price was of opinion
they could not be dealt with
together;
but as Her
The had told them so today; but
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Her Majesty's Government were of opinion
they should be treated together he had
"asked the Surveyor General to reconsider
the matter. It appeared to him, as it
did to the Secretary of State, that it
would be well to try to deal with
these subjects together. The Surveyor "General thought not; but when he
reconsidered the matter he would see
that he might yield his own view and frame
a scheme by which the two could be dealt with together. The
"moment, he received that report he
"would not lose a moment in
forwarding it."
In
spite of the desire I had thus expressed both in Official