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doubt occupied a dominant position but certainly within the last 25 or 30 years a gun fired from Murray Battery would have done infinite
damage
to the finest and wealthiest portion of the : Colony, and the battery - itself would have been
of danger rather~ than of protection. This
source
Ruin however has been
tenaciously held by the War Department for
period
ar
а
period of a quarter of a - century during which it has been perfectly
useless
and has become an
to the neighbourhood.
13.
eyesore
In such circumstances
the site should be restored
to the Colonial Government: without delay. The question of reasonable compensation for improvements cannot possibly
arise in this
case;
it would be more to the
point to ascertain what
loss