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tion by
.303" ammunition.
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3. The increases in establishment referred to
in the enclosed letter are as follow:-
Medical Officers
2
Corps Instructors
2
Infantry
43
#
Engineers
33
20
Mounted Infantry
50
Reserves
64
To tal
181
47
and the additions to the estimated expenditure for 1901 if the minor recommendations referred to in the third paragraph of
General Gascoigne's despatch, and the above increases were sanc-
tioned would be as follows:-
Additional ammunition
$1,354
Do.
Camp allowance
1,500
DO.
DO.
Instructors (permanent) 2,880
Arms and equipment
11,000
Capitation & efficiency) 7,5
565
grants
Total
$24,299
With a small saving of $360 in one clerk, this would bring the total Estimate for next year up to $59,315.
4. I approve of all the recommendations made
by Sir John Carrington with the exception of the item Mounted Infantry,
which arm I do not think suitable to the conditions existing here.
But remembering the large amount paid by the
Colony