CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6] — Page 13

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which is the right

important principle which is

of the Legislature to imprese

a.

on a Governor Governor

heavy additional tax without his

consent.

b.

I have already stated that the attered mode of lighting is inefficient. and disagreeable - but I have não to add that like most things in this Colony it is extremely expensive. The Bile presented by the Gas Company for last month's consumption of gas amounted to # 162.97, or a rate exceeding

£400 per

T

annum.

As I

am still obliged to pay

for lamp Coelies and to find oil and

Candles

for many

burners- so much

so that on a late occasion I saw 14 oil

burners in use in

my dining room in

addition to the right

burners

gas

intended to light the apartment_

I cannot compinte the expense throws

on me

for lighting the Home of

than £ 500 per

lefs

annun - an amunt.

absurdly disproportioned to my income, which is scarcely adequate to

the whole

of

meet the rest of my expenditure.

I therefore sought to get back to

8.

the old system- but as

you

will

perceive from the enclosed reply by the Survey or General to my

it is now

my Memo.

impossible to restore the

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