LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 8.
FRIDAY, 22ND MARCH, 1889.
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PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (SIR G. WILLIAM DES VEUX, K.C.M.G.)
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary (FREDERICK STEWART).
the Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN LEACH).
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the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.), the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES). PHINEAS RYRIE.
WONG SHING.
JOHN BELL-IRVING.
BENDYSHE LAYTON, (vice the Honourable ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN). CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
ABSENT:
The Honourable the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE), by permission.
the Captain Superintendent of Police, (WALTER MEREDITH DEANE), on leave. the Registrar General, (JAMES HALDANE STEWART Lockhart), on leave.
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The Council met pursuant to notice.
NEW MEMBER. Mr. NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES, Acting Registrar General, having been appointed an Official Member in the room of the Honourable J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, absent on leave, took the usual Oath and his seat at the Council table.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 7th instant, were read and confirmed.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.-PRAYA RECLAMATION.-Read the following Message by His Excellency the Governor :-
G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.
The Governor has given directions that there shall be laid before the Legislative Council an Ordinance to be entitled "The Praya Reclamation Ordinance, 1889" containing the necessary provisions for carrying out a great scheme of reclamation in front of the central and western portions of the Town of Victoria.
Though the general nature of the scheme and the manner in which it is proposed to be carried out have become well known to Honourable Members and to the community, the various questions connected with this great undertaking are now for the first time brought under the consideration of the Legislative Council; and it may be well therefore to make a short statement on the subject for the information of interested persons outside the Colony, and for the purpose of convenient reference in the future.
The project for carrying out which it is the object of this Ordinance to provide, is shortly as follows:-
To build a cut-stone sea-wall in front of the present Praya and at an average distance from it of about 260 feet, along its whole length extending from the War Office property at the North Barracks to the Gas Works, a distance of some 3,400 yards, or nearly two miles.
To fill in with earth and stone the intervening space, comprising an area of some 56 acres, in such a manner that it shall be available for building purposes; and
To construct upon this reclaimed area the necessary streets with all requisite. channels and sewers, a work which, besides a considerable number of cross- streets, will include a new Praya, 75 feet in width along the whole length of the new sea-wall, and the widening to 75 feet for a similar distance of the present Praya which will thus become an inland street.
The cost of all these works, the amount of which is estimated at somewhat more than $2,500,000, is to be defrayed by the owners of the marine frontage affected by the proposed reclamation, on the terms arranged in the correspondence which has been published, and now expressed in this Ordinance.