CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12] — Page 334

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Neither can there fore

be

recommended for acceptance.

This tunnel heading

be

CL

work

of

heading will

the simplest

character requiring little capital.

and involving

no risk from

weather. Under proper supervision

the most

of

the labour will be

that

Natives which can

I am

of

be readily

obtained-

and

informed be re

Indeed has been obtained.

utilized in the Island for

similar work.

I therefore beg

to recommend that arran

be made to purchase

1gements

the

necessary Engines, apparatus and

Drills, and to en

Inen to

до

Engage competent

out and

working of

the

Same

see to the

under

Competent

competent President Engineer, arrange

- ments being

made

weekly

If

to pay wages

as the work proceeds.

a contract could have been

accepted it was intended to retain

50

the responsibility of setting out and Dialing the tunnel- heading of this character that skilled knowledge, would not have been asked from the Contractor

and payments would have been

made at short intervals.

The Pokfoolum Preservoir was

recommended,

constructed as

How

as also the water works.

Singapore, and this Tytam -heading

al

tumel

in its character, will be

much simpler and easier of construction than the other works

named.

The

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