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the Naval premises which are at the present moment practically bereft of any significance whatsoever by the silted foreshore may again be made accessible to small craft at all times of tide.
As regards the interposition of a public road between the Naval Yard and the sea, which may be an obstruction, I am inclined to point out that unfortunately the obstruction already exists in the shape of large accumulations of silt, and that what is now sought to be done is not so much the formation of a strip of land between the Yard and the sea, as reducing that which already exists into convenient shape and order, and the reutilizing it for traffic by converting it into a quay to be laid with a current that will give full scope to the action of the tides, serving twice a day, and this will arrest the formation of further deposits.
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Although the Colony is attached great importance to the formation of the new road and prepared to make great sacrifices for the attainment of it...