CO129-534-6 Loans for public works 24-2-1931 - 11-8-1932 — Page 58

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Extract from letter to Sir Samuel Wilson

from Sir William Peel, dated

26th May, 1931.

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I am awaiting the despatch regarding the

loan, but I trust that you will agree to our paying

for the Gaol out of loan. I appreciate of course

that loans are rather for reproductive under-

takings, but after all the Gaol will last from

fifty to a hundred years, and I believe that the

sinking fund will repay the loan in 28 years; SO

it seems rather inequitable to ask the present

generation to pay out sane two millions a year out

of revenue for 2 years for the work, at the

expense probably of a good deal else that is needed

We cannot really afford to defer the Gaol, as the

present institution is an absolute scandal, and I

should be entirely unable to defend the Colony if

its shortcomings were attacked from outside. We

had some trouble there a few months ago, and I can

only express surprise that there has not been a

good deal more, for it is impossible to run the

place satisfactorily, as it is at present.

However, this will be the subject of a despatch in

due course.

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