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Mr. Bramston replied under date of
the 8th. August, 1895, that "as the land formerly held by
Mr. Findlay Smith will be required permanently for Military
purposes the Secretary of State concurred in the proposal
that the rent should be capitalized at 25 years' purchase",
but added that the land will however remain subject to
the Crown Lease in other respects".
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This particular case formed a
sufficiently close parallel to that of Spring Gardens to
justify me in treating the latter on the same lines al-
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-though this Government might have argued that the radical
distinction due to the fact that Spring Gardens was not
permanently required for Military purposes and that Mr.
Findlay Smith's property is so required, justified it in
still insisting on the actual terms upon which the Crown
Rent of Spring Gardens was remitted. I therefore made the
proposal contained in my Despatch of the 12th. of February
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The War Office, however, now
refuse to accept my proposal and argue that the waiving of
the Crown Rent on Spring Gardens by the Colony in 1859 was
in fact a contribution by the Colony to its permanent
defence fund and that to decline to credit the war De- -partment
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