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provided it can be effected without cost to the Goverment beyoud that

the

involved in

giving

new site, I have the how to state that

one

gaining

reason for the removal is the prospect of the Government considerably thereby merely in

money.

The Surveyor Generat expects that the ground of the

present Building with the

materials will fetch at least

$12,500.

The cost of

the new

building is put down at

$7,000, so that the Government

will derive a

clear

gain of

$5000 from the transaction.

and that amount will probably

be exceeded.

I notice however that you would not be inclined to have sanctioned the removal merely

as a nuisance to the neighbourton, it the site the slaughter House had been fixed before the groundh in its vicinity Government

So for

as

was

solid by

claim on

any

Government might be founded,

the latter could not be held

responsible - but I fear that stronger and more imperative consideration would have to be thought of - viz : the effect on the General Public health - of