CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12] — Page 115

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urgently wanted, the cost of which

will be four hundred thousand. $400,000.

dollars, and the prosecution of

Sanitary

works will probably

absorb one

hundred thousand,

dollars a

year for

the next ten

There will be full employment,

therefore, for any surplus

the

revenue

to come

during

some

years

6.

the

erection

of a Light

house on the Gap Rock

the Gap Rock is at the

present time

of considerably greater importance

at the present day than when

it

$100,000.

of

was originally

mooted, owing

to the

extraordinary development of the shipping trade of the Colony during

the last few years; and, as

the

representatives of the interests which

will derive the principal benefit from

the construction of the lighthouse;

offer to bear one

half of the cost, I

recommend the proposal

of

the

Chamber of Commerce for favourable

consideration.

It does not seem to have

ever been denied that the construction

of

a light

on this rock is

thinly

of

great importance.

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1 10 113 11. urgently wanted, the cost of which will be four hundred thousand. $400,000. dollars, and the prosecution of Sanitary works will probably absorb one hundred thousand, dollars a year for the next ten There will be full employment, therefore, for any surplus the revenue to come during some years 6. the erection of a Light house on the Gap Rock the Gap Rock is at the present time of considerably greater importance at the present day than when it $100,000. of was originally mooted, owing to the extraordinary development of the shipping trade of the Colony during the last few years; and, as the representatives of the interests which will derive the principal benefit from the construction of the lighthouse; offer to bear one half of the cost, I recommend the proposal of the Chamber of Commerce for favourable consideration. It does not seem to have ever been denied that the construction of a light on this rock is thinly of great importance.
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10

113

11.

urgently wanted, the cost of which

will be four hundred thonward. $400,000.

dollars, and the prosecution of

Sanitary

works will probably-

absorb one

hundred thouand,

dollars a

year for

the next ten

There will be full employment,

therefore, for any surplus

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the

yours.

revenue

to come

during

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years

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offer to bear one

half of the cost, I

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of

the

Chamber of Commerce for favourable

consideration,

been

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ever denied that the construction

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light

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thinly

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