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occupied by the Treasurer, Auditor, and myself, and I fear that they will not hold together another
wet season, or certainly not until the
are
new
- completed. The timbers of the roof-
Offices
are in
some places much decayed, and the Verandah
so much so that I think it must be taken down
immediately to prevent any
accident.
The guard-houses and Police Stations
occasionally require repairs to doors and windows
occupants are in general careless,
the
as
-
not sufficiently
Secure
and do
them during the strong
winds that sometimes prevail here, and for the
more.
perfect keeping in repair of these buildings in future, a careful examination will be made
once a
- month, and any necessary work bes
executed without delay. Marine Works Three landing piers were constructed under Report and Estimate 8: 10 of 1845, and the Contractor executed them in
They are very useful
a
very salitfactory
manner.
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to the community, but a constant deposit of
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- silt occurring in that vicinity, will soon render it necessary to prolong them, or at least for this season clear that material away to enable bouts to
closer
come
At the Harbour Master's Peer, the
deposit, has been greater than at the three others,
I propose to remove by the Convicts of
this possible
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; and place the material upon the Roads
they are forming
in the picinity.
Convict Labour. I have now to allude to
the work executed by the Convicts. At the latter
year
end of the Excellency the Governor, a Report and Estimate
1845 according to the orders of His
was
in order that
• prepared for their future work, the value of their labour might be shown satisfactorily; this Report and Estimate M 7 of 1845
5 was accordingly submitted and approved of by His Excellency with the exception of two items N° : 5 and 6, which it was not considered safe to place: them upon, from the difficulty of quaeding them sufficiently, the beality,
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