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$370.260

as 680,078 may be really

taken about

(including the cost of

cable to the Gap Rock)

owing

to the estimates

of the Surveyor General that $500,000 is the

maximum which can

$586,000

be spent by his department

which gives a total deficit.

of-

This

#215.740

may probably be increased

by the rent to be tendered for

Opium Farrn being less than that

the

that estimated.

However so far

as can

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be at present calculated there will be a balance to be carried

forward at the end of the curent

will

year which mearly, if not,

quite, suffice to cover this - deficit.

In explanation of the large

apparent increase in the estimated

revenue

from opium

over

the

estimated revenue for the current

year I have to make the following remarks as reported in dir G.

Win

Des

A