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What I recommend is
that as the
Colony
has in
over
to
- the past always shewn itself ready to give the War Department whatever lands were required in connection with defence
purposes,
so the War Department should surrender to the
Colony such of those lands
at it no longer requires, subject to the conditions mentioned in the Duke of Newcastle's despatch which
I
I have quoted above.
The question (referred
to in the memorandum
which a
accompanied Your Lordship's Circular despatch of the 9th of June, 1890) of the Colony's contribution towards
the cost of increased barrack
accommodation which
may
from time to time become
of the
to increases
necessary owing
the garrison, should in my opinion be dealt with apart and considered on its
merite
il
t