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Crown Agents have been instructed
to send out.
I have
the
-honour to submit for Your Lordship's
approval a further vote of the Finance Committee of $6000 for the construction
launch with the view
of converting
of a 11.1 steamer into a floating engine as
was
proposed at the time when
authority was asked for purchase of
a new
Engine. N. 1 Engine is very
-heavy and cumbrous and is practically
useless except
44-a
floating Engine, in
which shape it will render good
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service. I have the honour to refer Your
Lordship, on this subject, to the enclosed
copy of a letter from the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade.
3.
I have not provided for
this expenditure in the Eestimates of
1859 as I contemplated getting it
done this
year.
The Finance Committee.
have, however, had the subject for
long time under consideration and
unless
I receive
Your Lordship's
approval by telegraph it will be scarcely possible
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to get the
work completed in time.
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