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Somy of
cost of the Occupiers of the
old
Lea front, who in return will be
leases of given
of the reclamation in front of their original holdings).
The Colmy naturally objects par. 5c/17) t to reclaiming the foreshore in front of the Naval & Military Wildings, at its own cost, & then handing
over the reclaimed land
(between 128 16 acred) to the Admi-
malty & War Office; ) but the fovena par. 8 of 171 proposed that the Imperial for
should pay $$1,150 per sq. foot of
uch reclaim & land handed over
to the War & Naval Dept., together with cost of any
wharves to constructed
for them. That proposal
wa
submitted to War Office and
Admiralty in om
letter
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Nov. 1892,
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had
and we have not
any reply from wither
of those Departements on the subject. Another scheme, for acquiring
& Exchanging certain sites,
by the hatched areas on
shown
the annexed
plan was put forward by thee
Naval & Military authorities, but
little benefit
that involved verz
to the Colony
merely a slight
straight wing & widening of
traightening
Road
Queen's
& would not do away
the necessity of somer or
having
A
with
later new road on reclaimed
A
Rar. 3ef22387/92
on 22382/9 pror. 90/17130/42
B
m4019/94
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land in front of the property in question That scheme includes the acquiring
of Sharp's property, in order to clear. the Chinese houses thereon, the
which are regarded as presence of which
away
Otherwise ther
a nuisance & danger by the Havard & Military authorities; but the Governor Estimates that Sharp's property could not be got for less than $300,000,
objection to this Governer has no scheme, if the W.O. and Adm? still wish for it, but he thinks that his proposal above referred to will
(if any) not be much more expensive to the Imperial Gov., while the areas acquired by the two Depto would be very much larger.
t I gather that neither of the above two Schemes (A & B) meet the wishes of the W.0. and
presumably Admialty
A
because of the large cost involved in wither of them
net but we have no
information
as to what they now want.
a
A proporal is made in an letter of 31th Aug. 1894, to get over the difficulty of got bilding new road in front of the Docksand, without cutting off the Yard from ample means
unication with the sea, viz. that the road
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