CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7] — Page 80

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was

the Legislative Council, to_ which Your Lordship attributes importance,

for special reasons unlit

unlikely to, and in -fact did not, cause inconvenience. The Estimates had been passed and sent home for your approval, and owing to the illness of the Surveyor-General, and several members of his staff, the Building Ordinance (the only Legislative

lative measure

at the moment under consideration,

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which was li

likely to arouse

opposition

opposition)

was not

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-ready; while

on the other hand there were

ready sufficient to occupy several meetings of the Legislative Council, which being merely consolidations of existing statutes, (the work of the Law Revision Committee) were unlikely to create discussion. 16" Stewart, the Colonial

a number of bills, quite

asted

Secretary, who efficiently for me during my absence, held meetings of Council,

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