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

724

Nov. 1892,

зав

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

169

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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