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DEFENCES OF TASMANIA.
Progress to September 30, 1881.
Remarks. March 24, 1882.
To be armed with two 70-pr. rifled guns, three S.B. 8-inch Completed. One 70-pr. temporarily placed in Alexandra shell guns, and two S.B. 32-prs.
Battery
Sir William Jervois' Recommendations.
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pro-
The Government is being pressed by me to, ceed at once with the works.
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Kangaroo Bluff.
2. Inclosed work with barrack
One-Tree Point, Alexandra Battery.
3. Inclosed work, with keep
4. Inclosed work
LAUNCESTON.
Pig Island, River Tamar.
TORPEDO DEFENCES.
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5. Hobart
6. River Tamar (Launceston)
MILITARY FORCES.
7. Regular Artillery detachment
To be armed with two 8-inch (new pattern), and two 80-pr. (converted) rifled guns. Barracks for garrison
In progress. Two 8-inch rifled guns ordered
To be armed with two 7-inch and two 64-pr. rifled guns, Completed, except stockaded inclosure and keep one .B. 8-inch shell gun. Stockaded inclosure and accommodation for garrison
To be armed with two 64-pr. rifled guns. closure and accommodation for garrison
Stockaded in- No progress
Observation and electro-contact mines at mouth of River
Derwent
Electro-contact mines across river
20 officers and men
Under consideration
No action taken.
Vote for defence works expended; further expenditure now under consideration.
Proposed to defer this work for the present.
Contract entered into for plant and equipment.
LAND DEFENCES.
HOBART.
Queen's Battery.
1. Reconstruction, improvement, and repair
8. Volunteer (Auxiliary) Garrison Artillery
9. Torpedo detachment
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130 officers and men
30
450
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19
33
610
10. Volunteer field force to repel landings at Hobart and Launceston
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March 24, 1882.
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(Signed)
P. H. SCRATCHLEY, Colonel, R.E.
Volunteer forces, 634 strong, maintained. Torpedo de- tachment not yet formed
Under consideration.
Appendix No. 7.
AUSTRALIA.
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