ON THE PRESENT APPKOPRIATION OF WAGES, ETC. 



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moralisation, and declension. And no greater service can bo rendered 

 by the economist or philanthropist than by exhibiting the duty and im- 

 portance of husbanding aright our resources, and making them conducire 

 to the economic progress of the nation. 



The Committee is fully aware that some of the deductions and 

 reasonings in this report are not founded upon well-ascertained facts, 

 nevertheless it deemed it useful to present them as materials for considera- 

 tion, and as helps to the elucidation of a subject of the highest social and 

 economic importance. The report points out many wants and desidei-ata, 

 and the Committee recommends the reappointment of the Committee, 

 with an increased number of members, for the purpose of suggesting 

 means for supplying the same on a uniform and scientific basis. 



Total lExpenditure. 



1881. 



