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and the Finance Committee
of the Colonial Legislature have already voted the
money required, and expressed the opinion that
negotiation should be entered into without delay with the Naval and Military authorities.
Accordingly, I put
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myself into communication
on this subject
with Rear Admiral
Commodore Commanding
General
You Majesty's Crooks and with
The Admiralty, CB, Commanding
You Majesty's Naval Forces in China
and that the Naval
and
Military Authorities, while fully recognising the
military
of the proposed work on
Sanitary
grounds, now claim that
greater additions and facilities should be granted to their
respective departments at the sole cost of the Colony than are provided in
the original plan, and than (as it would appear) were contemplated by the
Naval
and Military authorities when they both, in 1877 gave their consent to the scheme. It is to be
feared that the expense of the
additions
would be very heavy.