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to the Colony either
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a road
or as a
means of
of opening new sites for building purposes
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It is the construction of this new road, so often and so warmly urged by preceding Commanding Royal Engineers, and the circumstance that in order to avoid further
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discussion on the subject out here, the Colonial Government is for the second time in the history of these transactions, requesting
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the concurrence of the War Office to the transfer of 1869, which has given rise to the objections
now advanced by Colonel Moggridge, and in reply to which the following remarks are respectfully submitted.
13.
Water supply
are as
(A) Cession of Gathering grounds The sources of supply to Military Buildings
stated by the Commanding Royal Engineer two in number, that is, the Albany Nullah which represents the Main supply, and the Magazine Nullah subsidiary supply further to the West.
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Both these
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perennial Streams
their
owing
origin
to the constant condensation of clouds by the Mountain tops above Victoria. The water is led into War Department tanks made of brick and covered over so as to render their contents inaccessible. Both tanks are situated above the level of the new road. By far the largest portions of the drainage
constituting the sources are on Colonial lands situated, as before stated, high up on the Mountain
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sides above the 500-foot Contour and consequently
beyond the reach of Military supervision and Control. As regards the question of Gathering grounds, it cannot be too distinctly understood that the transfer
entails
no
sacrifice whatsoever
on the part of the Military Authorities, inasmuch as
the capacity of those small portions below the 500-foot Contour may
be taken, in the dry season when water is most scarce, absolutely nil, while in the rainy season the
same are
equally valueless from the fact that the Streams come down from the Mountain tops
already filled to overflowing.
(B)
Risk of Pollution from Military Cultivation