CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4] — Page 64

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revenue) that

a sum

-of.

$763,500 will be required to cover the expenditure

expenditure on all

Public Works in course

of

construction or contemplated

in the near

a.

future, leaving

balance of $936,500 where- with to defray the cost of ~ the new Government Offices and other Public Works which

it may be necessary to under the next few~

take during years.

The above figures do

not

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not include the value of i

the reclamation in

Marine lot 63

thereof,

as no

front of

any portion satisfactory

settlement of this matter~ has yet been arrived atinege

tiations, however,

proceeding.

are still

I trust that the in-

formation furnished in this despatch and its enclosures will satisfy you that the financial position of this a Government is, so far as it

is