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that if the site were required by the Colonial Government for public offices, the War Department might reasonably be expected to consider the question of building elsewhere any quarters it might be contemplated to creat.
is
The site of the battery by far the best one that
could be chosen for any extension of the public. offices either at present in the future, and I would
or
o
therefore
的
therefore strongly recommend that the War Department be
asked to restore it to the Colonial Government.
5.
at Stanley.
War Department land
I have asked Major-
General Barker on what ~
grounds the War Department
desire to retain their land
at Stanley, and he has explained to me that though
the Barracks there have been.
abandoned, (principally
believe
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