CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2] — Page 14

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expenditure. It consisted of Members of the Executive Council and the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council, presided over by myself. Such a body without being unwieldy represented all classes and contained in itself the elements for resolving all questions relating to Public expenditure, about which however no difference of opinion ever arose.

That Committee probably achieved more than any other body. In fact, of $19,000 given to the locality £2682-6-8 was for the completion of that Building, a permanent object affecting the Community generally, and which should not in fairness be mixed up with the temporary reception of His Royal Highness. The actual cost of that reception to the Public funds did not amount to $8,500. The principal expense was defrayed from private sources and amounted probably to a large total.

The excellent order maintained by the Police and the general decorous behaviour of the Native Community during a period, when the City was thronged by some 30,000 additional visitors, was the subject of general remarks; and I may add that during the whole period of the Chinese visit the daily average of Crime of every ...

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expenditure. It consisted of Members of the Executive Council and the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council, presided over by myself. Such a body without being unwieldy represented all classes and contained in itself the elements for resolving all questions relating to Public expenditure, about which however no difference of opinion ever arose. That Committee probably achieved more than any other body. In fact, of $19,000 given to the locality £2682-6-8 was for the completion of that Building, a permanent object affecting the Community generally, and which should not in fairness be mixed up with the temporary reception of His Royal Highness. The actual cost of that reception to the Public funds did not amount to $8,500. The principal expense was defrayed from private sources and amounted probably to a large total. The excellent order maintained by the Police and the general decorous behaviour of the Native Community during a period, when the City was thronged by some 30,000 additional visitors, was the subject of general remarks; and I may add that during the whole period of the Chinese visit the daily average of Crime of every ...
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not in fairness be mixed up with the temporary reception of His thayal Highnes. The actual cast of that reception to the Public fundo did not amount to $8,500. The principal

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expense was defrayed from private sources and amounted probably to large tatal.

The excellent onder maintained

by the Police and the general decorous behaviour of the Native Community during a period, when the City was

a thronged by some 30,000 additional visitors, was the subject of general remants- and I may add that during the whole period of the Chinces visit the daily average

of

Crime of every

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