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obvious that to require troops to march such

long.

distances during the unhealthy season here would be directly contrary to the

about $17,000 per annum, so that one

and a half years annual ontlay would the entire expense of

more than

defray

commodious and permanent

Instinctions transmitted in

Your despatch

building

barracks.

of the 26th February.

N 38.

8.

am at a loss to -

7.

1920

conceive why the Colony which emtributes

Moreover I am at a

Neset, as to the cost entailed on W. B.

the Colony by the Barracks, I will now.

wer to undertake

suppose that the Colony the duty of defending the min- and if

I must frankly state that I could not undertake the responsibility with a

card than at least 30

guard

with a les

of the existing

local Police under the direct Supervision of an Europian Inspector. This at three nights in bed would require Minely men- the cost of whom, 3 Sergeants Inspector includest, would be

and an

already £20,000 per

annum to its militang

defences should be saddled with such

a prodigious anvinal onttay, when the Same duty can be so much more.

efficiently and cheaply-discharged by the Military- with a daily guard of

of 10

or 12 min.

The only argument I can

9.

imagine fairly

used

against the propersed.

mode of defending the mint would be some inconvenience to the Military