Notice after the Estimates were passed. While
Althing
Ina prepared
approve g
...
These additional
appointments, I
would note
that
... of spin that great
... ok be exercised
I not to condone
All
the expenditure of the Office
Postal
is apparently being
which appears
increasing
at a faster
rate than the receipts
of the Dept, although
the latter are still in
excess of
the former.
I approve the votes
for the two Works referred to in para. 10-12 of your despatch, viz. $10,000 for
(which as a matter
of urgency
were begun last year,
I am given
to understand that such a road would be of great advantage
on the completion of new Gardeners' Cottage, + $10,000 (on account of
a total estimated Expenditure
of $126,000) for
a new
Road from Victoria Gap
to Mount Kellett Road.
I take this opportunity
4. I ask you
to consider
whether, when the
favourable
financial position of
the Colony is more, than at the present time,
some scheme for making a road round the Island to connect the city of Victoria with the
outlying villages should
not be taken in hand.
5. I notice that several
of the offices specified
in para. 40-42 of
your Estimates ought
to have been