pro-
foreshore to the East of the Naval Yard, it is the bable intention of my Go-
vernment, as soon as the Western reclamation is
completed, to undertake the reclamation of the har- bour front from Arsenal
Street to East Point, a dis-
tance of nearly a mile, ~ and thereby add about 50
to the building
acres
of Victoria.
area
The plans for the Naval Yard
now
317
submitted shew a
Yard long ourving
rubble mound
ending at the present Praya front at Arsenal Street. This
rubble mound would col
leet all the floating gar-
bage
and filth from the foreshore between Arsenal
Street and East Point and would probably become an
intolerable nuisance to m
in or
or employed in the Naval Yard
those living by day
especially during those dry
monthe