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3 industrial progress of the colony. Sir, I feel assured the estimates laid upon the table will, as a whole, meet with the approval of the public of this colony. I feel satisfied that if your administration is marked by a full provision for the public water supply of the colony, by perfecting its system of public education, by the sanitary reform indicated here, by the extension of the area which can be devoted to the increasing population by the reclamation of the foreshore, and by the means of communication between the East and West which a continuous Praya will give, your administration will give a new impulse to the industrial condition of the place and a new lease to its prosperity.
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