CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12] — Page 103

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" and twenty six dollars, and are not- half finished, this Government was

"pressed to undertake

" in a

in

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them

before

it was

position to do so, and cameot,...

therefore, be held entirely responsible

"for the outlay."

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"There is no doubt that they will

prove, when finished, a great blessing " to the community; but lecporary expedient for an increased water supply were practicable; and,

left entirely to

at a small cost were

"had the matter been

"this Governmunus, the larger operations

"would no doubt have been deferred, till

" sufficient

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" sufficient funds had accumulated?"

"In the same

way,

we were noting

altogether free agents in the matter of

"Mr. Chadwick's extensive and

" scheme of Sanitation ;

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costly

many people here

" being of opinion that some further - "consideration was nocovsary before...

finally committing ourselors to it."

(6) It will be remcrubered that,

after full examination, I adopted the same view of

- of the matters referred to

above as that taken by the Earl of Kimberley while Secretary of State for

the Colonies; and that coon

after

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