679
$
I consider recoverable, and the remain=
·
to write.
ing $6.93 I request authority off as leases have been issued in res=
premises or the owners.
pect of the premises
owners having
left the Colony.
Statement Nr 6
This statement is a Balance Sheet
showing a summary of the foregoing, which I submit for the approval of dis
Excellency the Governor.
If it is considered.
neassary
to
obtain the approval of the Secretary of State, I submit that general authority
should be obtained to deal with the arrears of this nature in future. The condition of the Squatters is euch as to render it practically impossible to avoid occasionally having debts it is impossible to recover.
Stringent measures have been
taken during recent years
to reduce to
a minimum such debts, and it is now
generally only Prose who left the Colony
early in the
year or whose houses have been pulled down and the tenants e-
victed by order of remain in default.
Horible Colonial Secretary.
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the
Magistrate that
I have 7o. St. Francis A. Cooper,
Director of Public Works.
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