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do not wish to minimize the seriousness of the
situation should there not be a generous rainfall before the dry season finally sets in. Whatever
scheme may be decided upon will be pushed on with the utmost vigour. The cost it is proposed
to charge ultimately to a new loan but it will
be possible in the meantime to finance the
expenditure from the unallocated surplus balances
which we are holding in reserve.
I commend, gentlemen, to your earnest
consideration the estimates of expenditure which
are about to be laid before you and I know that
I can rely on you now, as always, for that co-
operation in all measures for the welfare of
this Colony without which good Government is
impossible.
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