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annually recurrent cost will be £2 per buoy, or £6 per annum, save in the first year when the cost will only be £1 per buoy.
The existing Wigham Lights cost $150 a year
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each for upkeep, not including the quantity of coal burned by the launches employed in visiting them. There will therefore be a saving of about £13 per annum on each buoy, or £39 per annum (as only three buoys are in use at a time). Thus the new apparatus will pay for itself in about 6 years, and will be an economy as well as saving supervision and giving greater efficiency.
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I have the honour accordingly to request your authority to provide a sum of £261 . 16 0 in the 1914 Estimates for this service.
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I attach for your information a pamphlet on
the subject of Aga buoys and light-ships.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble servant,
Amay
Governa
&c..
Condosure 2.
ASED INTER