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ENCLOSURE
Minute by the Acting Colonial Secretary,
Your Excellency.
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REC
27 JUN 98
The two questions as to (1) the proposed diver-
sion of the MacDonnell Road and (2) the value of the site
which the Military Authorities desire to be possessed of,re-
quired reference to the Director of Public Works.
2. The tracing which accompanied His Excel-
lency the Major-General Commanding's Letter of the 22nd,ulti-
mo,and which marked the diversion proposed by the Military
Authorities, has been accepted by Mr.Ormsby and will show the
trend of Macdonnell Road. That question is therefore settled
80 far as the Military and Colonial Authorities are concerned
if the land sought is handed over to the Military Authorities.
3. The request that Murray Battery should be
surrendered in exchange for the proposed site between Bowen
Road and Kennedy Road has been refused by the Military Au-
thorities on the ground that that battery is required for a
repository for drill and instruction for the Royal Artillery.
This must be a new use to which it is contemplated to put the
battery site, for, so far as my experience goes, I do not remem-
ber ever having observed any user for such purposes of that
site.My observation has not however been constant or close,
and the battery may have been in frequent use without the
knowledge of myself or other Civil officers.
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