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consider it necessary or advisable to embody them in the Defence Scheme, as is done in all Imperial Schemes, and in most of those prepared in Colonies which have no Imperial garrison. They presume that the Local Committee have adopted other means to insure these details and tables being kept up to date and in accordance with the distribution of troops, &c., laid down in successive revisions of the Defence Scheme.
4. As the Government of New South Wales is fully informed of the views of the Colonial Defence Committee, concurred in by the War Office and Admiralty, on the subject of a mine-field in Botany Bay, it is not proposed to further allude to it.
5. The advantage of having the Defence Scheme completely revised up to date so that an alarm of war, whenever it may occur, will find the Colony thoroughly prepared, is doubtless fully appreciated by the Local Committee, and it is hoped that a revision of the Defence Scheme embodying the considerable modifications it requires has now been prepared.
(Signed) M. NATHAN, Secretary,
February 25, 1898.
Colonial Defence Committee.
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REPORT OF LOCAL DEFENCE COMMITTEE
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