CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12] — Page 273

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the

should not be allowed quarters for their families. Deven of t Constables recently enlisted are.~

- married. One of them has five children besides a wife. Your Lordship has decided that

passages

out and home

again.....

are to be provided for all these.

But the prinsipal difficulty will be where to house them when

they

arrive and the only

means

I see of meeting this difficulty

is

by allowing $15 a month in each ease to provide their own

quarters

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quarters. This expenditure will amount

The cost of

to about $2000 a

year.

building married quarters is ~ estimated by the Surveyor General

at about $2,500 per head. Unless some restriction is put upon

marriages, the Colony will some day find itself saddled with avery -heavy item

item for construction of married quarters.

8.

Pending Your

Lordship's decision on this last

point I have

I have informed the

Captain Superintendent of Police

that