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transmit to Your Lordship about the middle of next. month when the revenue
for the first half of the
current
has been
year ascertained, that he has effected in his estimate
a
of establishment for 1893 large reduction on the sanctioned expenditure for
1892.
3.
The only point on which I am disposed to differ from the Director
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of Public Works is as to the -necessity for the permanent appointment of a second Land Surveyor. The work of the department in connection with Crown
Lands and Surveys will
no doubt continue to be
heavy for
some
years
to
come, but it is bound to decrease in time. On the whole I incline to think that it would be sufficient to permanently appoint a
one
Land