14
15
the 12 acres there
or
thereabouts
should be divided between
the two Departments, and that the Colonial Government should have the perpetual
user
of the Road between the Boundary Walls of the Departments and the Sea;
the reclamation and
construction of which Road should be paid for by
the
Colony.
9.
By
this means
would
ample accommodation ~
607
would be afforded to the Military and Naval Forces. The Sanitary condition of
the Barracks and Naval
Yard would be vastly improved and the total cost to the Imperial Government would be but a little if
any
more than that which would be incurred if the proposals suggested in the. "War Department letter were adopted whilst the gain of
available sites would be
immensely