Enclosure No. 2.
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COLONIAL TREASURER:
Your Excellency,
Under Item 6 Airport (b) Airport and Seaplane Slipway the sum of $860,000 has been approved for the total
cost of these works. See Appendix VI (b) p. 115 of
Estimates, 1936.
Up to 31st December, 1935, $583,931.92 only had
been expended owing to delay in arrival of materials
although when the 1936 Estimates were framed it had been
thought that the larger sum of $708,695.86 might have been
expended up to the end of last year. The actual balance
remaining on 1st January, 1936, was therefore $276,068.08
against an estimated balance of $151,304.14. A resolution
has already been taken for the expenditure during 1936 of
the latter sum and I am now asking that the difference
between $276,068.08 and $151,304.14, namely, $124,763.94 be
also made available in order to complete the works this
year.