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commenced, the following money I took the did not see where the
Fund: -
to come from.
Jaitam Water Works about $10,000.
Victoria College.
Police Buildings. Military Defences
55,00070,000
150,000
New Water pipes, mains, » $75,000
« $360,000
which will absorb the whole of the Loan, and leave nothing to be provided in 1888 for Sanitary works. I would have been glad to have inserted in next year's Estimates an account of a sum on a new Gaol, but I did not have the opportunity however, when the Estimates were being discussed in Council of expressing my opinion that a new Gaol was one of the most pressing wants of the Colony.
7. It was urged by some of the Unofficial Members that a further loan might easily be raised without resorting to extra taxation. The question is one which might perhaps be considered