Medical Authorities _ the restriction
would appear
lobe
even leve.
necessary; The nearest point where
house can be built on the South
of Remedy Road to
orde
any
barracks is distant from them not bes than 1,000 feet. With the exception of those
on the outer
ed
edge of the town, all
ge-of
the European houses in Victoria, Government House including shelf, have other house built on the slope above them at a less distance than this. So that the maintenance of this restriction at so enormous a cost to the
Colonial Government is a precaution on behalf of the soldier which is deaned necessary for
no one else
in the consumemity. As the land above Kennedy Road is meluded in the Exeropean district, constituted under the recently passed Ordinances ; so that no Chinese houses can be
built
built there, and as
Government has
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the Colonial
ut has expressed its
readiness to provide in the leases
any reasonable anitary Conditions the Military Authorities may
require, it seems to me that valid objection
Cau
tio
any longer
be entertained) to the utilisation of the ciles, or, at all events, that the object to be
gained by the restriction is so extremely shadows, as to be utterly disproportionate
to the
of
enormous
sacrifice involved. As regards the second suggestion:
Mr Price, viz : the Co
Co-operation of the War Department in the Praya Extension, -work absolutely
a
necessary for the Convenience and health of the general population, military
as well as civil, Ishould
be unable to regard this
Concession, ev
even if
að a
the War Departing
received no more direct gain frome
it