10.
2.
The Surveyor - General has been directed to communicate with the
Officer Commanding the Royal Eugineers on this subject; and also generally respecting the lauds reserved for allilitary purposes.
3.
It need
scarcely
be said that
Governor Sir George Bowen will contine
to co-
operate to the best of his ability with the Military authorities for the Defence of this Colony. The Gannor
would suggest that this would be a favourable opportunity for the Major-
General to request again the ~ attention of the Was Office.
to the point clearly and
forcibly stated in his lette
so
several
of the 18th Febmary ultive, when rencont Sargent wrote as
· follows : - At present
several
Dire
and as
held in
" several works of utility "to the Colony "pending a
a decision as to
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advantage
abeyance
defensive
" requirements, and I am constantly "compotted to veto the erection of- buildings on laud cubraced in the
" scheme of defence, while at the "tive d'am unable to
able to
same
o give any assuran
" or hope, that the scheme approaches
"it realization."
4.
has
The fact
is that, (as the Governor
abroady pointed out to the Imperial Government ; ) the loss to the Colonial ___ Revenue by the reservation of loucts on the chance of their being required. hereafter for loooks of Defence (nom definite plau having as yet been adopted by the War Offices) is
estimated