CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11] — Page 40

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I also forward copies of the local

Hansard containing reports of the meetings of the Legis-

-lative Council held on the 15th. and 29th. September, and

6th. October when the Estimates were considered. On the

first of these dates I introduced the Budget with an

explanation of the financial position of the Colony and of

the more important increases and decreases in revenue and

expenditure. On the 29th. September the proposals of the

Goverment were criticised, and speeches were made by

three Unofficial Members of Council, to whom the Director

of Public Works and I replied. In order to furnish Un-

-official Members with the fullest information on the

subject of increases in establishments to which Mr. E. A.

Hewett had referred in his remarks on the second reading, I

had prepared the supplementary statement attached to the

detailed Abstract enclosed.

Your Lordship will observe that

while Mr. Hewett did not object to any specific item of

increase in the discussion which took place in Committee

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he expressed the opinion that "on broad lines the working

of the Government is extravagant and that no facts or

figures would convince him that money is not being wasted

on Public Works and in various other Departments, but

particularly