with the Lance Defence of the Island that the Reservoir, which supplies the Town of " ictoria with water, is in an exposed bosition and might easily be distroyed by an enterprising enemy who had

succeeded in

landing

at Aberdeen.

his point is of great importance and if amy comprehensive cystem of defence is to be carried out, the Committee is of

opinion that a separate and independent Recevoir ought to form a portion of

Scheme.

2

the

Attached (sie enclosure B) is a memo :

in

the Principal Medical Officer the China Command. It is there proposed

that

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that the War Department land at Stanley should be improved by stopping

the

Cultivation of rice and by planting

on the slopes around. The Committee

hus

strongly in favour of these proposals. Stamlay

affords

an admirable situation for

a

Military Cantonment, and it would be disirable to improve the site in view of its being possibly required hereafter for that purpose.

Endrewvie C contains a itter from Colore Exoreman to His Excellency wo

Administrator, in which it is suggester

that the Hewal and

Military establishmen to

Fhould be transferred to a

large oper

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