only landed from damaged Ships, which would not amount to a great deal. Business, that is the Mercantile offices, would remain there as now, but a great want besides storage is room for Docks, for Hospitals, for private residences, and for air and exercise.
I readily admit and have admitted from the first that the requirements of Her Majesty's Naval and Military Services must of course have prior consideration; but when they shall have been satisfied it will in my opinion be both unjust and impolitic to disregard the urgent sanitary and Commercial wants of this important and overcrowded community.
As regards the large sum of £6000 at present paid by the War Department