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All payments on account of such expenditure to be supported by proper vouchers. The Committee of Supply having determined that all new works were to be charged against the Province within which they might be Greeted, it will be necessary that the Colonel Commanding Royal Engineers should from time to time explain the nature and object of each work; the whole sum approved for that service being Three thousand five hundred pounds. • (Signed) E. W. Stafford. COPY OF A DESPATCH FROM COL. WYNYARD, C.8., TO GOVERNOR GORE BROWNE, C.B. Auckland, 27th August, 1858. As the enclosure accompanying your Excellency's communication of this day's date has reference only to two subjects, viz, the repair of existing Barracks and ihe construction of new Barracks, and takes no notice whatever of the third point alluded to in my Letters (enumerated in the margin), and as the instructions are equally explicit in all, I trust your Excellency will pardon me if I wth June, 18*8, again allude to the Despatch of the I2th March last regarding Lodging Money for Officers and Men in No -! this Command, and in so doing I request to be favoured with a distinct reply on the subject; the more *** ££*•• IBis, so as the Parliamentary Grant for this service in New Zealand has been suspended, as already made known to your Excellency in my letter of the 23rd instant. I have no wish to press unduly these details on the notice of the Colonial Government, however, in my position, I have no alternative but to carry out the instructions received from the Authorities at Home, and in the absence of further pecuniary concession, to seek your Excellency's opinion and decision as to the alternative laid down in the Secretary of State's Despatch above alluded to, for it is evident the allowances in question must be forthcoming from some source or another, if the Troops are to be retained in the Colony. I have &c. (Signed) E. H. Wynyard, Colonel Commanding the Forces in New Zealand. His Excellency the Governor, &c, &c., &cCOPY 01' A DESPATCH FROM COLONEL WYNYAKD, C.8., TO GOVERNOII GORE BROWNE, C.B. Auckland, 28th August, 1858. As the subject of the enclosed communication, just received from the Commanding Royal Engineer, fully bears out my Letter of yesterday's date addressed to your Excellency on the subject of Lodfing , for Officers and Men iv this Command, I hasten to submit the same for your perusal and information. I have &c, (Signed) R. H. Wynyard, Colonel Commanding the Forces in New Zealand. His Excellency the Governor, &c, &c, &c. Royal Engineer Office, Auckland, 28th August, 1858. I have the honor to forward herewith for the information of the Colonel Commanding the Enclesure) Forces, a copy of a Memorandum I received by the June Mail from the Inspector-General of ethJun^'ew. Fortifications. I havo, &c, (Signed) Thos. R. Mould, Colonel Commanding Royal Engineers. The Major of Brigade, &c, &c, Auckland. Barracks. War Office, Bth June, 1858. MEMORANDUM FOR THE COMMANDING ROYAL ENGINEER AT AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND. In reference to the various correspondence that has taken place relative to the expenditure EncloJure) incurred since February 1857, in the maintenance and repair of Barracks, Bm., in New Zealand; The Commanding Royal Engineer is informed that the question as to whether the Imperial or the Colonial Government shall provide the expenditure requisite for Barrack services of every nature