proved of the proposal that the plans for the new Post
office and such other new Public offices, with the ex- ception of the Law Courts, as it may eventually be decided
to erect,
locally.
2.
may
be prepared ~
You are right in ga
thering that the total esti-
mated revenue.
from
Land
cales during the next four
years
which
was
given.
in
my despatch No78 of the ~ le
18th
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371
18th March last as $1,700,000 was based on the assumption that
land would be leased, as here
tofore, for a period of 999 years.
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6140
in
For the reasons
1 given
my despatch Nc 284 of
eur
rent date, I do not think that the amount will be ~
seriously affected by the:
conveyed
decision c
to me in
your despatch N. 139 of the 23rd May last that, in future, the terms of Crown Leased should not exceed 75 or at
of
the