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by the Naval and Military Authorities be raised to $7,000. There will be eight and a half acres of land reclaimed by the extension estimated to be worth £160,000. If the whole cost of the extension is to be defrayed by the Civil Government, it would only be fair that it should benefit by the reclaimed land, in which case it could undertake the work at once.
But the Naval and Military Authorities want the whole of the reclaimed land; and, until this year, have refused to say anything for it or any portion of the cost of extension. General Cameron, however, who has more liberal views than his predecessor, has informed me that in February last he expressed to the War Office his opinion that if extra expense is caused to the Colony by the adoption of any modified scheme to meet Naval and Military objections,
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it would be only fair that a