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exceed that time the Contractor to be charged with the amount - Such that would be no extra expense to the Government, and the whole arrangement would facilitate the work. would lee infinitely better executed and consequently with more satisfaction to all parties.
10. Sand Sales.
I am of opinion that the scale of Rates pu Aere should be the same as those in Victoria, these rates were fixed at a time when it was not anticipated the City would obtain its present dimensions and its present value. I do not think, except for speculators that the rates would be found sufficiently low to induce persons to occupy the site, and if it did I think it would be hardly fair to Tenants on this side who might be injured thereby.
The First Land Sale might comprise sea frontage from the Naval Coal Sheds to S. M. Point, and space from the Cantonment Southwards, a Condition of Sale being that this latter area be cut-down to certain levels defined on the plan, and Such conditions inserted in the Leases, the area might be placed at the disposal of the Contractors for filling the sea frontage. The second sale might comprise the Area S. E. of Cantonment and the Low Bay and Paddy fields, a portion of the cutting from the
too high, and if the rates were reduced any I do not think it could be done in Sand