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Department amounting

Annun.

to £429.10 per

With the Department as at presents constituted, I shall be fully equal to excente

all the demands that can be made upon it,

unless

any

works are

proposed at

from Victoria; if such

distance from Vie

a

were

to be

the only addition would be

Houses, but if no further Civil Works in the Colony_

Acecssary,

Allowance for

expenditure for

is decided.

upon, a

reduction

may

effected in the Departments._

In the district comprising

are

still be

the Town several works which of Victorin there I think it would be highly desirable to have effected, such as the completion of the work of surface drainage by stone channels, the protection of the sides of some of the Roads and streets, either with parapet walls, raised foot-paths, or such other means

for cach particular place would be

AJ

found

most applicable; widening the road round the Wongueichung Valley and the formation of a new

a

carriage-road from Albany Godowns to the Wongueichung Valley;

the

of

I formerly advocated the construction this Bond when land was much sought

revenue-

after, and estimated the probable that would be derivable from the cake of

the adjoining ground; at the present time it is not likely much of that ground, if any would be purchased, and in a

pcenniary sense Government would not be directly benefited,

but it would be a healthy and pleasant

rood

for the use of inhabitants of the whole Tour, for

in summer both the Queen's Rond and the Wonqueichung Valley are too confined and hot, and but little benefit is derived from exercise therein; another carriage rood

not so

expensive

AJ

this

me

might be made round the Suttumpur Valley or

Causeway Bay; these two roads, with the