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11.
urgently wanted, the cost of which
will be four hundred thousand. $400,000.
dollars, and the prosecution of
Sanitary
works will probably
absorb one
hundred thousand,
dollars a
year for
the next ten
There will be full employment,
therefore, for any surplus
the
revenue
to come
during
some
years
6.
the
erection
of a Light
house on the Gap Rock
the Gap Rock is at the
present time
of considerably greater importance
at the present day than when
it
$100,000.
of
was originally
mooted, owing
to the
extraordinary development of the shipping trade of the Colony during
the last few years; and, as
the
representatives of the interests which
will derive the principal benefit from
the construction of the lighthouse;
offer to bear one
half of the cost, I
recommend the proposal
of
the
Chamber of Commerce for favourable
consideration.
It does not seem to have
ever been denied that the construction
of
a light
on this rock is
thinly
of
great importance.