been
fixed upon for these additional Shoops, as it has been reported upon by the Army Medical Men as likely to be unhealthy, and unfit for permanent occupation by troops, and yet, directly accommodation
is wanted,
this
very
so called objectionable area is
taken possession of and for
the purpose,
as Sir Hope Grant states, of testing the Sanatory properties "of the place", and to effect this desirable object the
site objected to by the Army Medical men is selected for the trial.
for
I hold
very different opinions from the Doctors who object to this site, but its present occupation I maintain is highly objectionable from every point of view
I consider it desirable that even the temporary Military and Civil locations should be kept as distinct as possible, and if the Military
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are allowed to spread themselves over the whole Peninsula, and to appropriate for next summer,
Napier's Range and
Land
adjoining, there will be no other place left but the vacant spaces within ground applied for by them for their permanent Cantonment, for the erection of the Civil Commissioner's Residence, Temporary Court House, Gaol, Police
Barracks and other Civil Buildings, which it will be
necessary to provide for carrying on the Civil Government of the place until the arrival of the formal instrument incorporating the New territory with this Colony
Further, if the Military demands are acceded
to at home, a double movement will have to take place if the present unauthorised occupation of the Land referred to, is sanctioned by His Excellency the Governor; the Civil Buildings will have to be