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As the Colonial Government will have to find the Navy a fresh Range elsewhere, as soon as this Range is absorbed in the proposed Park, I submit that the area of the Range should be excluded from the proposed valuation and treated as if it were Naval property.
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I have also to remark that clause 4 of Schedule 'B' seems to require some modification. It states that the Colony is to have the enjoyment of the foreshore of the land at Devil's Peak shown on plan 'Y'. But the foreshore alone, without some strip of land behind it, is practically useless to the Colony which would utilise the foreshore by selling it for commercial enterprises, in most, if not all of which, more or less reclamation would be necessary. For such purposes some land behind the foreshore (if only to obtain stone and earth for the reclamation) is absolutely necessary.
The point is of importance as the foreshore, and land immediately adjoining it, in the bays mentioned, is likely to become of considerable value to the Colony.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient
Humble servant,
M.J. Gascoigne
Major-General,
Administering the Government.