CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7] — Page 70

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I annexe a statement by the Director of Public Works from

which it will be seen that the total estimated expenditure in 1892 on works already.

mmenced is $545,506, that

com

the expenditure incurred_

this

year up to 31st March last was $111,893, and that the outstanding liabilities at the same date amounted to $196,487. The due limito of expenditure have therefore

been largely

exceeded

already

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excceded, and I conceive that

if a loan be not raised, it will be necessary at once to issue orders to stop all

expenditure

on works of construction. I should most

strongly deprecate the issue of such orders, inasmuch as some of the works will prove directly remunerative when completed, and the ultimate cost of their completion would in all cases be greatly

enhanced

by

their present

abandonment