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third has ten representatives. Also although questions which affect the Brooks "or the Defences have to be referred "sooner or later to the Military Authorities for their opinion, it makes a considerable difference that that opinion is not given until the scheme it refers to is far advanced. An idea may be prepared, and a plan and estimate can be adrie. the matter Spec in the of ex. Or before it comes before H. Leg Council, money may be voted, and it may then be the duty on Military grounds to ask for its modification or abandonment. Land may be sold or let on building-leases "without any consideration of the effect on the Defences, and intervention may be too late, or else either come on this account will cause more irritation than: it would have done at the outset. A feeling of certain antagonism is apt to spring up in the minds of Colonial Officials towards the Military authorities, x.