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trouble is now experienced from malaria.
The estimated expenditure for 1935 is about
$2,400,000 and it is expected that by the end of that year
the dam will have been brought up to level 530, or about
180 ft. above the foundations.
Also it is expected that by that time the core
trench of Pineapple Pass Dam will be completed with part of
the core wall above it and the earthworks and rock fill
about half complete.
So far, the work has proceeded well and the informa--
tion now available with regard to costs shows that it is likely
that it will be completed for a sun within the estimate.
Resolutions covering expenditure on loan works for
1935 will be moved at a subsequent meeting of Council.
This, Sir, brings me to the end of my review of the Budget for 1935 which I now present for the consideration of
my unofficial friends well knowing from past experience that
their advice, however critical, will be conceived in a spirit
of helpfulness.
It only remains for me to express the thanks of
the Government to the Heads of Departments who have accepted
with good grace the inevitably ruthless sacrifice of their pet schemes of improvement and to express my personal
indebtedness to the Treasurer and to Mr. Butters and the
staff of the Colonial Secretary's Office for the very
efficient way in which they have relieved me of the detail ed work inherent in the preparation of the Annual Budget.
I now move that a bill intituled "An Ordinance