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(e) Post Office operations.
(f) Ferries. The question of establishing a vehicular
ferry across the harbour is under consideration.
(g) Operations which might properly be charged to
municipal rates.
9.
It is sought to avoid raising difficult questions of this nature by the suggestion for the new method of assessing the military contribution; and at the same time
the existence of such claims for withdrawing revenue from the
military contribution assessment providės good reason for accepting the rate of 12 for future assessments in accordance
Twelve with the new scheme, in preference to any higher rate. 12
would provide at least as large a sum as His Majesty's
Government is entitled to expect if the present system were
worked in a way considered equitable by this Government.
I have the honour to be,
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Sir
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Your most obedient hurible servant.
w. I Southown, Mo.d. Southosh.
Officer Administering the Government.
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