CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10] — Page 190

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b.

043 regards the Tytam

Waterworks, which have already

cost, up to the 30th

to the 30th June last, ~

was

>

four hundred and nine thousand $489,126. one hundred and twenty six dollars, and are not half finished, this Government pressed to undertake them, before it was in a position to do so, and cannot therefore be held entirely responsible for

outlay.

the

There is no doubt

they will prove, when finished,

a

great blessing to the community, but

temporary expedients for an increased water supply at a __ small cost were practicable; and, had the matter been left entirely to this Government, the larger operations would no doubt have been deferred, till sufficient

funds had accumulated.

8.

In the same

way

·we

were not altogether free agents in the matter of Mr. Chadwick's extensive and costly scheme of Sanitation, many people here -- being

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