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4. The Committee are also of opinion that it would be advisable to reserve or acquire Kate and Compton Islands, both situated in the entrance to Wark Channel.
5. Further, the Committee recommend that Spire Island, the Chamepot Rock, and the two Kinnahan Islands (east and west) should all be reserved or acquired. These small islanda, heavily wooded, lie to the south of Digby Island; and, particularly the Kinnihans, they effect the problem of defence by offering to hostile vessels places of rendezvous screened from observa- tion and close to the main entrance to the harbour..
6. In conclusion, the Committee desire to point out that land in the neighbourhood of the harbour is daily increasing in value, and, if their recommendations are to be carried out, that any delay in reserving or acquiring the sites proposed might prove an expensive proceeding.
August 10, 1909.
(Signed)
W. D. OTTER, Brigadier-General,
Chief of the General Staff, Camaila.
R. W. RUTHERFORD, Colonel,
Master General of the Ordnance, Canada. C. C. HEYCOCK, Lieutenant, R.N.,
Associate Member
PRINTED AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE BY J. W. HARRISON,—6/1;1911.
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