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the worker the expense will As the necessarily, be increased.
dawn will not be completed, in the accordance with the original plan, until the end of next year or beginning of 1888, the question - whether the finance of the Colony will permit of this extra expenditure need not be determined at present.
There are on hand so many important works or urgently required that I do not see my way at present to recommend this extra expenditure.
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As regards the question asked in paragraph 5 of the Colonial Office Despatch before referenced to, instructions have been given in accordance with the rule laid down in paragraph 446 of the despatch No. 40 of 1855. I have had, however, to authorize the Surveyor General last month to purchase 1600 barrels of White's cement on the spot, and Portland Cement, and to borrow 500 barrels from the Dock Company.
The dry season which is availed of to ...
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