f

4.

645

to the annual Military contribution

of Twenty thousand pounds sterling (£30,000) per annum) it is

the

of th

utmost importance that the resources

of the Colony should be fully developed and utilized. At the present.

in

moment there is much difficulty,

the demand for land, and

this condition of affairs will continue,

a meeting

until it has been finally

decided how

much land is permanently required

by the Military Authorities. This casa has been stated in my Despatch

th

rov

Nr. 51 of the 19. t. Felmary extime, to 1986. which I beg to refer .

H

Your Lordship states

(paragraph 5) that you have gathered

that the Legislative Council will... "Thearfully

"vole the

specially o

required from the Colony for Military,

fortifications, that is, about

ley-six

out fifty, dis thousand pounds sterling (256,000).

I have

no doubt that this

money

will.

ہو

be loyally voted, but the amount "cheerfuluess " achibited by the Colonial

Legislature will / as I am informed, )

depend, in a

large

measure, on

the

manner in which the

euggestions

in my Despatch N = 51 and the

engagements in the War Office Ceter

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