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in the 12 para: of suggested in the the War Department letter. According to an estimate
made by
by the late Surveyor General in January 1889 the reclamation of the ~
a
-reaching from Murray
Pier to Arsenal Street
would cost $691,000 and the amount reclaimed would be about 12-16 acres.
My proposal on behalf of the Colonial Government
is that this reclamation
should
should be at once undertaken
and excouted by the Public Work's Department at a cost to the Imperial Government
on
of $1.50 a square foot o behalf of the Naval and Military Departments, that The Public Works Department
should erect whatever Walls, Basins and Piers and means
of a
access
to the sea that
may be required by those Departments, they paying the actual cost thereof, that
the