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" and twenty six dollars, and are not- half finished, this Government was
"pressed to undertake
" in a
in
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them
before
it was
position to do so, and cameot,...
therefore, be held entirely responsible
"for the outlay."
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"There is no doubt that they will
prove, when finished, a great blessing " to the community; but lecporary expedient for an increased water supply were practicable; and,
left entirely to
at a small cost were
"had the matter been
"this Governmunus, the larger operations
"would no doubt have been deferred, till
" sufficient
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" sufficient funds had accumulated?"
"In the same
way,
we were noting
altogether free agents in the matter of
"Mr. Chadwick's extensive and
" scheme of Sanitation ;
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costly
many people here
" being of opinion that some further - "consideration was nocovsary before...
finally committing ourselors to it."
(6) It will be remcrubered that,
after full examination, I adopted the same view of
- of the matters referred to
above as that taken by the Earl of Kimberley while Secretary of State for
the Colonies; and that coon
after