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2. In connexion with the de- annum should
cision that #boo per
be the amount allowed for Gaol and Hospital Ministrations. I am requested to point out that the at.
General in a
torney
speech made
in Legislative Council on the 26th April last said:-
"When I
was
Seoretary in Finance Committee
one
acting as bolonial
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day the matter came
before the
If
average of
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Council & I gave figures which
were based upon
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α
year
A
#
#
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n
and a half. In the report
in the newspapers there
was a word
left out which had the effect of
as if I was speak-
making it look as
ing of the total numbers for a
year and a
and a
did say
year
half. What I actually
was that the
was based on a
average of the half's
a year
and a
numbers. The figures I gave
therefore should have been regarded
as those of a year. I made the
correction the next day when the
report