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the extra accommodation

could be economically and speedily provided by crest_ ing wooden houses in which the Governor's staff could be lodged.

If you approve of this and if Sir Henry Blake is to arrive here this sum.

mer, the work will be put in hand at once; otherwise it will not be begun until

October.

If the "Cliffs" be enlarged

at

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at a cost of $12,000, that sum will have to be defrayed out

of public funds, as the owner states that he could not find private individual willing the rent necessary to

a

to pay

give him a return on the

With re

outlay.

4.

for the query

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978

eference to contained in your

" telegram, whether a larger

house can be

found,

there

is no larger house at present

available. A house called

"Craig Kyrie