CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5] — Page 13

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of the new

Gaol which was

sanctioned

by

the Secretary of

but which

State several years ago,

was

postponed owing to all

available funds employed on what

were considered still more

pressing

requirements, such as the Tytam Water Works and the important denitary improvements indicated by Mr Chadwick in his Report. These works

are

not yet completed. As

regards the urgent necessity of

the Water Works, it is sufficient to

state that in the

dry

season ma

many

of

the poover classes have to buy water, and that at the Hydrants, where, when

the reservoir is low, water can

turned

are

on

only be

for a limited time, there

daily and frequent fights

amongst the numerous expectants, in which the weaker naturally go

to the wall.

J

The cost of a

new

#400,000 Gaol has been estimated at Four

hundred thousand dollars, and

now that the Colony, has pledged

hundred and sixteen thousand

$116,000 itself to pay

a

Sum

of about one

pounds

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