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sanction of the War Office Authorities to allowing the proposed wood to
The boundary, even though summing a good deal South of the actual Boundaries, and therefore embracing ground to be retained instead of being taken from the War Department.
This was replied to by Despatch No. 43 of the 11th October 1866, from Your Lordship, the then Secretary of State for the Colonies, in which Your Lordship stated that the Secretary of State for War would at once take steps to ascertain what land would be required for "Military purposes, and that if
after making
The
necessary provision for those requirements, it was found that any portion of the land in question could be made available for Colonial purposes, it would at once be handed over to the Colony.
This Despatch was supplemented in 1868 by a further Despatch No. 63 of the 28th March 1868 from the Earl of Buckingham & Chandos, enclosing a Despatch No. 3 of the 18th March 1868 from the War Office, who forwarded with which a plan showing the tracts which it was desirable to retain for Military purposes, and those which on specified condition might be transferred to the Island Authorities.