D
C. O.
2614
REC 24 JAN
148
:
1.
Mount Cochrane which in its present state is
useless as a building site will be cut down to a level
site without cost to the War Department, by which means
an excel lent building site free of cost will be
obtained by the War Department.
2. The site will, by the proposed alteration of
boundaries, be made into a more convenient shape, and
will be surrounded on all four sides by roads, whereas,
if the present boundaries are maintained, the site will
be of irregular shape and on the North side a contiguous
plot will be left, on which objectionable buildings
might be built.
3. An open space of grass and shrubs will be
obtained between the altered plot and the coal briquette
works.
Mount Cochrane, it is true, has hitherto been
considered generally in the scheme of Defence, but no
definite use has ever been assigned to it, and, having in
view the additional territory lately taken over, it
does not appear to me that Mount Cochrane has now any
defensive value.
I beg therefore strongly to recommend that
this
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