CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12] — Page 233

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Report and Exlimate dated 1st

No. 2.

No. 3.

September, for the creation of a Boat house _D2

for the Harbour Master and Police,

amounting to £. 255 × 1 × 44. The crection

of this building

"

"

was sanctioned

by

Earl

Grey in Despatch No 5 of 28th January, 1848, and the Estimate submetted for

the work entailed an expenditure of

508106; buit,

of funds

owing

to the want

at the time, its execution was

deferred. The Surveyor General states in

his Report the

arising

both from

necessity for

this

service,

the untenantable state

and confined dimensions of the precent temporary building; and,

for the construction of the

the

amo Ven

f

New

Boat

house is reduced by one half of the ori -

ginal sum, and the

recessity for such a

building is apparent,

is apparent, I have decmed:

it advisable to sanction the work.

Report and Estimate - dated.

No. 4.

شہر ہے کئی کہ

13

th September, for the improvement

230

and

repair of the Post Office, amounting to

"This building

F2030. 84 ·

is

Government. Property, and yields a rental of. £. 150 per annum, paid by the Postal Department. It was erected in 1845, and during the past 7 years the outlay repairs to the building has amounted to £. 86. 10. The repairs now called

4 for

on

appearing from the Report to be absolutely the Executive Council, with my

necessary, concurrence, had no difficulty in passing

the enclosed Estimate, in order to prevent

further decay

And Report and Estimate - dated 19th September, for widening

improving

the Road

and

1 from Aberdeen Street

to the Queen's Road at the Naval Stores,

amounting to L. 319 - 6. 10. The nature

of this service is

"

fully explained by

the

Surveyor General in his Report, and

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