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to take
Nar Department do not appear to this view, I exppose it is better to bow to the inevitable by making
ao
an apparent concession to what I regard
a wrong principle rather than incur the risk of prolonged delay with
regard to matters of which the interests of the Colony, well as of the Emporial Government, imperatively demand an settlement
a-v
exuly
and
On this ground therefore, on this ground only, do I deem it my duty to entertain the suggestions which the Surveyor everal has very properly made for the purposes.
the views of the Wan of morking Department.
Examining in detail his
recommendations which, in the
aggregate,
he
Megards
as
the
minimum Consideration in the
nature of "quid pro quo
"That
should
should be required by the Colonial Government, I find that only one
be righthy regarded
of
them can
building
led as
a conccosion on the part of the War Department . The restriction against
on the South side of Kennedy Road, by which Colonial property of the value of
some million
of Dollars is rendered useless, has appeared to me to be so absolutely indefensible, that I had intended to make an earnest appeal to Her Majesty's Government against it Contrivance, without reference to any other question. With the costly - precautions which the Colonial
Government is n willing
to take in
respect of drainage, there could be absolutely no danger to the health of the Troops on this ecore; and
Os me
regards eviculation of air - point which, I understand, has seen largely insisted by the Military
upon
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