CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10] — Page 369

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Crown Agents, to the purchase of heavier boring machinery for expediting the construction

of the tunnel, and to the great

of unforeseen work in

exceeds

earrying down the foundations of the reservoir-dam to a solid bottom on the rook. A revised

estimate of extraordinary sanitary works recently

recently made by the.. durveyor General shows that a

reduction can be made on the

original Estimates of $20000. But Fronty thousands on the other hand supplementary

votes

votes on this account which

have either been expended or to which the Government is pledged,

as well as

the

unavoidable expenditure entailed

by the

the recent severe

typhoon

to add a

"Further

sum

of

$25,180. The

render it necessary

Twenty five thousand

one hundred aud

eighty

De bondades original Estimate will therefore.

One hundred &

deven thousand. And

hundred & eighty.

Enclosurett be swelled to $177,180.

To sum up - there

be on

will probably be

the

ordinary expenditure of

the

year

an excess

over

Revenue

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