20.
24. 393
with reference to the question, by pointing
out that Your Lordship, whose
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of the scheme was in any sanction of the
necessary, might deen the above
Caed in
profit too large to be respect by a few proprietors at the experice of the public and might require the work to be done at Government cost for the benefit of all the taxpayers. Amis
caused the same view to be reiterated
urope
: emphatically in the Colonial Secretary's letter of 17th July, 1888; and
Mr Chater, as representative of the lob - owners, in his letter of 9t
Inly
July, 1888,
while assuming
assuming somewhat
prematurely that the local Government.
and the lot-owners
had
agreed
to
the mode in which the work was to
be done, acknowledges the necessity of the Secretary of State's sanction to any such aigreurent, I trust that Your Lordship will be able to regand
as well as
legally
yourself as morally free, to sanction the scheme on, any conditions which may
expedient, notwithstemirding the
position which was somewhat.. unfortunately avoumed by the Government