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Mount Cochrane to be cut down by the Colonial
Public Works Department, to the level of Station Street
on the East, and MacDonnell Road on the West, or to such
higher level as may be decided on by the Under Secretary
of State for War; the proceeds of this excavation to be
the property of the Colony.
2.
The Under Secretary of State for War to
relinquish to the Colonial Government the area tinted blue
and to receive in exchange the area tinted red, on
attached tracing.
3. The piece of ground between extension of
Battery Street and MacDonnell Road to be reserved as an
open space.
The advantages to the Colonial Goverment of
this arrangement are as follows:-
The improvement of the thoroughfare between Tut'
Tsin Tsa with Taumati and the rapidly growing towns
beyond.
2. The provision close at hand of material for
the reclamation of the foreshore to N.W. of Mount
Cochrane.
The advantages to the War Department are:-
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