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of the newspapers . As the meeting of the Finance Committee at-

which this resolution was passed

was not a

and as the

full one, effect of the resolution was to stop all votes of money during the recess, I requested that the question might be reconsidered at a full meeting of the Committee, and I laid before them a Minute (of 17th July.) - pointing out the great utility of

the Finance Committee, which

had now been working satisfactorily

since

since the

year 1892, when the was borrowed from Mauritius . I also informed the

practice

Committee that in 1878 Governor Hennessy had made a suggestion that the meetings of the Finance Committee should, in future, be

open to reporters of the press but that this suggestion had been yang disapproved by Sir Michael Hicks

8 th

1.42 April, 1879.

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Beach, and I added that, under

the circumstances, I should not

feel warranted, even

if the

resolution were carried, in

giving