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can be carried forward in the Estimates, and he appears

also to forget or ignore that part of my speech at the re-

assembling of the Legislative Council on the 11th October

in which I made these remarks: As the financial statement

accompanying the Estimates will show, I hope to have at the

end of the current year, including a balance in round figures

of $90,000 brought forward from last year, a surplus of about

$400,000 over the actual Expenditure, which will justify me

in submitting to you votes for further expenditure upon those

works that appear in the Estimates or for such other pressing

works as have been approved by the Public Works Committee."

10. Paragraph 5 The staff of the Public Works

Department is under consideration, and you have already intimated

that this matter must remain in abeyance until you

have had an opportunity of considering the Estimates for 1900.

11. Paragraph 6. The list of Public Works

for which expenditure has been provided in the Estimates was

arranged with a view to importance and urgency. It should be

remembered that many of these works can be carried on simultaneously.

It is not necessary to await the completion of one