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but whether it should be carried out on the terms mentioned in this despatch, is another matter. You will notice that hardly any work in the sense in which other sanitary measures are recommended by Mr Chadwick can be considered as urgent. The Mr Chadwick's report of 26 July 1882 quoted by the Governor, and the Finance Committee's remarks contained in 13494.

2. That being the case, is it the kind of work to be now taken in hand or postponed to a future day? The War office will get 296.5 acres out of 77 reclaimed, but it is proposed only to change the Imperial Government with a 3rd of the cost of Zido as formerly instead of 4. The work is to cost at least $220,000. To which though the vote has been approved by the Finance Committee, no entry appears to be made in the Estimates and Mr Marsh states that it must be provided by loan.

Under these circumstances I would do nothing till we receive Bowra's further despatch; if on the receipt of that despatch the work is still considered feasible I would not permit it to be undertaken unless...

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but whether it should be carried out on the terms mentioned in this despatch, is another matter. You will notice that hardly any work in the sense in which other sanitary measures are recommended by Mr Chadwick can be considered as urgent. The Mr Chadwick's report of 26 July 1882 quoted by the Governor, and the Finance Committee's remarks contained in 13494.

2. That being the case, is it the kind of work to be now taken in hand or postponed to a future day? The War office will get 296.5 acres out of 77 reclaimed, but it is proposed only to change the Imperial Government with a 3rd of the cost of Zido as formerly instead of 4. The work is to cost at least $220,000. To which though the vote has been approved by the Finance Committee, no entry appears to be made in the Estimates and Mr Marsh states that it must be provided by loan.

Under these circumstances I would do nothing till we receive Bowra's further despatch; if on the receipt of that despatch the work is still considered feasible I would not permit it to be undertaken unless...

3. It will apparently benefit the War office more than 'it' as much as ... More Convenient location ... Gaol for instance is nothing ...

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but whether it should be carried out on the terms mentioned in this despatch, is another matter. You will notice that hardly any work in the sense in which other sanitary measures are recommended by Mr Chadwick can be considered as urgent. The Mr Chadwick's report of 26 July 1882 quoted by the Governor, and the Finance Committee's remarks contained in 13494. 2. That being the case, is it the kind of work to be now taken in hand or postponed to a future day? The War office will get 296.5 acres out of 77 reclaimed, but it is proposed only to change the Imperial Government with a 3rd of the cost of Zido as formerly instead of 4. The work is to cost at least $220,000. To which though the vote has been approved by the Finance Committee, no entry appears to be made in the Estimates and Mr Marsh states that it must be provided by loan. Under these circumstances I would do nothing till we receive Bowra's further despatch; if on the receipt of that despatch the work is still considered feasible I would not permit it to be undertaken unless... 3. It will apparently benefit the War office more than 'it' as much as ... More Convenient location ... Gaol for instance is nothing ... Page ... The final output in HTML is but whether it should be carried out on the terms mentioned in this despatch, is another matter. You will notice that hardly any work in the sense in which other sanitary measures are recommended by Mr Chadwick can be considered as urgent. The Mr Chadwick's report of 26 July 1882 quoted by the Governor, and the Finance Committee's remarks contained in 13494. 2. That being the case, is it the kind of work to be now taken in hand or postponed to a future day? The War office will get 296.5 acres out of 77 reclaimed, but it is proposed only to change the Imperial Government with a 3rd of the cost of Zido as formerly instead of 4. The work is to cost at least $220,000. To which though the vote has been approved by the Finance Committee, no entry appears to be made in the Estimates and Mr Marsh states that it must be provided by loan. Under these circumstances I would do nothing till we receive Bowra's further despatch; if on the receipt of that despatch the work is still considered feasible I would not permit it to be undertaken unless... 3. It will apparently benefit the War office more than 'it' as much as ... More Convenient location ... Gaol for instance is nothing ... has been revised to meet the exact format required by removing the last page information line as it is not a complete sentence or a part of the original text that needs to be preserved. The text is now formatted in HTML using `` for paragraphs. Spelling corrections and spacing fixes have been applied. Markdown formatting is not used in the final output as per the instructions.
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