risk which is remote from a sanitary point of view in any case is that of longer delaying the reclamation of these accumulating bays, and it needs hardly to be pointed out that the inevitable result of leaving deposits of this nature under the influence of the tropical climate and the sun's rays is the ...
Neverthless as I have said it is impossible for the local Government to undertake the work at present, and I quite admit that if the Military Authorities are satisfied with the waiting state of things, it is idle to expect Imperial Treasury to contribute anything from Imperial Funds. I much regret, however, that this should be so, and I am still hopeful, from the nature of the complaints which from time to time are made to me by those who are affected, that they will perceive before it is too late the necessity to cooperate in a general scheme, that the only effectual remedy for what they complain of is the complete reclamation of the foreshore and its permanent protection by a substantial sea wall.