CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9] — Page 49

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tion by

.303" ammunition.

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3. The increases in establishment referred to

in the enclosed letter are as follow:-

Medical Officers

2

Corps Instructors

2

Infantry

43

#

Engineers

33

20

Mounted Infantry

50

Reserves

64

To tal

181

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and the additions to the estimated expenditure for 1901 if the minor recommendations referred to in the third paragraph of

General Gascoigne's despatch, and the above increases were sanc-

tioned would be as follows:-

Additional ammunition

$1,354

Do.

Camp allowance

1,500

DO.

DO.

Instructors (permanent) 2,880

Arms and equipment

11,000

Capitation & efficiency) 7,5

565

grants

Total

$24,299

With a small saving of $360 in one clerk, this would bring the total Estimate for next year up to $59,315.

4. I approve of all the recommendations made

by Sir John Carrington with the exception of the item Mounted Infantry,

which arm I do not think suitable to the conditions existing here.

But remembering the large amount paid by the

Colony