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Guard in ten minutes assuming Zetit is connected with the barracks by telegraph. The site would be far from the Sanitarium in the hills.
The Soldiers are all in Iland in incen. Foad and its vicinity which has become exceedingly valuable. This land was given to them free, on condition that it was required for Military purposes. If no longer required for these purposes it would revert to the Civil Government - Jan & of course not willing...
I the land and building recently acquired by the Staff Department from private individuals.
My suggestion is that the site should be given free of charge, the hillside below Chapagine Cap for barracks for the whole of the troops now in Victoria and for military court and other necessary buildings, that the present barrack site or a portion thereof be handed free of charge to the Naval Yard & that the extension which is urgently required - and that the Succu enter...
It requires His Excellency to give his consent to the disposal by the Military Authorities of the ground that was given to them for Military purposes only.
I am assured that the sale of this ground and the building thereon would more than cover the cost of constructing new barracks and other buildings on the new site.
Should this be approved &c for six acres to be reclaimed...