CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12] — Page 53

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which are

marked

intent

some passages in the debate

throwing light

much of the P. W.D

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judying from

lour

7 Mik

the famous

imagini Roland

I should then

-1 feeling.

The

unofficials

don't

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was something

I'

We

might ask

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1. K. Post Office

Committer speed to

their view.

about the Puthi Works

the officials_

hint

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of it appears to have wearked this Sept before.

then is

the mention

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(It is perhaps worth noting

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Otherwise, as

the Leirioed Estrict

fourth Typhon Repay is $2,301, 600, of which $1940, 200

is to have been spent by the end

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1914.

wveresponding figures for the Tytem Turk Scheme

2,400,000 work will b

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These Estimates have been very carefully drawn

up and very fully explained. I do not think we

need regard the deficit to be met from surplus

Balances with any disquiet looking to the large

extraordinary expenditure on the Typhoon Refuge

and the Reservoir.

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I would not say anything about the Public

Works Committee. There is a tendency for such

Committees to become more than consultative, and

валь

an enquiry may lead they to think that we are

in favour of referring all works to the Commit-

tee. The unofficial members have ample powers of

criticism in the Council, and the Govt. should

not be hampered in its public works policy -

though they will of course consult the unoffi-

clals when desirable, in order that they may

get the necessary appropriations votes without

friction. Moreover the Gov. can when he wishes

refer works to the Committee, and we can leave

the remarks of the unofficials in the Debate

to make their own impression.

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Otherwise as proposed.

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I need

add

only

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and that in the

that if the properate

proposals

strictest compdence