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instant, in reply to
to the water supply.
2.
am
The
a
question, as
question gave
me
opportunity of briefly reviewing
what had taken place in the
Legislative Council formerly subject, and of removing misconceptions.
3
some
the
As to the latter, it had
been asserted more than once in
the local papers that certain sums voted by the Council for the
improvement of
the water
supply and the sewerage of the Town of Victoria
had not been expended by Government, but had been used by
me to swell the balance in the
Treasury Chest. On this point I read
to the Council the Auditor-General's returns from which it appeared that out of sum voted for the Improvement of
the water Supply,
the local Government had
expended $47,000 and had completed
the work;
and out
of
the sum
of $20,000 for sewerage, I had Spent $19,962. I also read Sir Michael Hicks Beach's despatch
that he considered
Any
W 195 of 31st July 1879, to the effect
statement, as
to
this expenditure on
water
Supply,
all
satisfactory