CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12] — Page 324

TASTAS

estimate for 1900 $100,000, but acending to Kere sich estimate,

$500 in probably be

recurved during

year.

receive

only

the current

I should glad

It fummin be of interest to

some fuction

explanation of these

figures. I have also to

6.

you to be good

ask for further information enough to supply

to the new

as

head, "Interest,

$5,000," and a more detailed account of your for anticipating

Masons

so considerable a falling off in Land Sales.

Lobserve 7. Jobson that the

estimated expenditions in $3,994,270, which is

$774, 400 more

than the

than

rursid estimate for 1900, and $831, 380 more the actual expenditure for 1899. The greater part of

this increase is in the

for 1901

DRAFT.

expenditure of the Publi

works Defectment w

refer

322

to which I should not in

later paragraph of this despatch. The various increases

in personal emoluments and most of the other innfortant increases, have already, effect, receivid

8. As regards

of

in

my approval.

the

estimate Haneous

Expendition" for the year as I should have been glad if notes could have been furnished, as in other cases, explaining

the

Reason

fa

the

vaniowe

changes.

do not understand why the expense of printing | the Government Gazette should have doubled; why Exchange Compensation is expected

to cost $25,000 more, t

In particular, I