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number of troops should have some training, so that 30 of them might be available at any time when a fire occurred. Of course it would have been a voluntary scheme, but the men refused to volunteer, though the scale of payment proposed was in the opinion of the Major General sufficiently liberal.
11. The only other subject dealt with in the report of the Commission, to which I need here refer, is the construction of a Sanitarium at the Peak. It was proposed in 1883 to build on the only available site a station, which would at the same time be a Sanitarium, but General Sargent objected that the ground wanted for a redoubt. General Cameron has withdrawn the objection, on condition that the site and plan of the building should be approved by the Commanding Royal Engineer, in order that in case of need, the building might be taken over by the...