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present estimate is $4,500,000 for gaol and
fanters
staff ted as against $3,700,000 for
in
gaol and Police Training School.
But the questions are whether the necessity
can legitimately
for a new gaol is so pressing that it m
financed as suggested, and finally whether
the colony must not, in its present financial
state, do without a new gaol for some further
time.
The difference between three years and
three years plus a month or two is not very
great and I suggest that we should wait for
the depatch which is to justify a loan, and
inform Hong Kong by telegram that we are
doing so.
// regret to
delay
Q. C. Miles 15.131
which is due harth
absence & fails to dissing in getty
comection buper togethon.)
る
I think it would be a serious
mistake to affrove this until we
eget
the
Governor's loan firfonals and decide
whether they
minated
in
can be approved. As Mr. Collins
58440/24
for a silver country
The
is a
a loan in sterling
horrid gamble".
he garl has repeatedly
bem
portfored until the financial position improves. It has always previously been