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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