7.
In your despatch 1:51 of the 26th February last Your Lordship observed; - I must
leave to
you
to decide which
of the various proposed Public buildings or roads should be postponed in order to bring the year's expenditure within due limits." By due limits I understand such limits as will preolude a deficit. the year's transactions, and I am
clearly, of opinion that this is the end which should
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be aimed at. The estimates for 1892 show a surplus of
revenue over.
ordinary
expenditure of
of some $370,000; but this estimated surplus is reduced to $250,000 by the shrinkage of $114,000 in the popium farm, and as #$170,000! will be required this year to adjust the accounts of the Colony, the probable available surplus for public works extraordinary may be put
at some $80,000 to $100,000.
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