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last November to take into consideration the Government Notification of the 10th November The notice convening the Meeting expressly preting consisting of Marine Lot Holders. Not being Marine Lot-Holder therefore I did not attend:
Ever since my arrival in this Colony I have been of opinion that the facilities of public access from the land were altogether inadequate. Even in the earliest times, when the trade of the colony was far inferior to what it now is, this was so, and of course things are becoming worse every year. From the first time the Praya Reclamation being raised until now, I never had the slightest doubt in my mind that the work would be a great public benefit.
I should be inclined to answer the first Question in the schedule affirmatively, being of opinion that the Government alone ought to undertake the work. My experience hitherto teaches me, however, that Government work is done slowly and very badly. I think that Marine Lot Holders, being interested in the work being done in a substantial manner, so far as their own frontage is concerned, would do it themselves for better and more expeditiously than the Government, if they could be brought to co-operate.
But then there is the difficulty of getting them to act together, or to secure that uniformity of action which the Government can command. Unquestionably it is the duty of the Government to do it. The land reclaimed will become
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