CO129-149 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [1-4] — Page 14

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colutely and urgently required:- 4. Improvements to the system of drainage of "Victoria which are daily becoming more requisite the later they postponed, and will entail a

are

very large expenditure..

5.

- pravements to the system

of Water Supply to the various parts of the City; and which is at present very defective.

Such works

these, without

mentioning the ordinary repairs to and maintenance of Public Buildings, Roads, and Streets, Telegraph, Public Gardens, to Xo X. must necessaryly produce

more work than

it is possible for a Head of Department

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to attend to efficiently, without the best and ablest assistance.

If I am obliged to be away

Jam.

for a day upon duty, inspecting Roads, or Outstations, I have really. upon whom I can rely for the ___

no one

performance of the ordinary daily

Office routine.

Looking to the importance of

the Works

are so

now in progress, and to those which it will be necessary to undertake, and which imperatively essential, I have the honar to request, that, His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, will be pleased to grant

grant me some

assistance, which I believe

temporary be

Can