reached $90ys. The actual expenditure has gone on increasing since 1847, when it was $6649, until 1881, when it was $10631.68.
A portion of this increase is due to the increased expense of printing the Gazette in its present form, that is, with English and Chinese in parallel columns. In addition to this, the Gazette has gradually increased in size of late years. Lately, too, a great many more documents of all descriptions have been printed than was formerly the case. There were not so much for local uses as for enclosures in despatches.
If the Gazette were printed as it used to be, and if the amount of printing were reduced to what it was previously to 1844, I believe it would be a much more economical measure to have the work done in such an establishment as one of Noronha's than to have it done in a Government Printing Office.
W. H. Stewart,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
8.5.82.