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Sir,
I have the honour to inform you that a copy of
: your despatch No.56 of the 28th.of February last together
with a statement of the conditions upon which the Military
Authorities are prepared to withdraw their objections to the
construction of a road from Kennedy Town to Aberdeen, having
been communicated to the Jubilee Committee, that body inti-
:mated that they saw no reason why the conditions imposed in
deference to military considerations should not be complied
with.
2. The Committee further urged that steps should
be taken to push on the work with all speed, and asked that
if the Public Works Department was not in a position to
undertake the work they might be authorised to make their
. own arrangements with a firm of local Engineers.
3.
As the Director of Public Works has no officer
whom he can spare for this special work at the present time,
I caused the Committee to be informed that Government accep-
ted their suggestion that they should employ Engineers in
private practice for the purpose, on condition that the plans, specifications and tender for the road be first approved by
the Director of Public Works; and that the work of construc-
tion be placed under the general supervision of that officer.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
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