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Enclosure 2. Enclosure 3.
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enclosed. I consider
reasonable the requests for an
approach road, which will be 12 feet in width; for the
levelling of the site; for the grant of additional area
for a garden, secing that there will be much economy in
space which would be devoted to burials if a crematoriumI
were not instituted; and for a boundary fence, on condi-
-tion that the latter is maintained by the Lessees. The
cost involved is for the road $2,800; for levelling the
site $1,100, and for the fence $200, or $4,100 in all.
The total area, shown on the
enclosed plan, which I propose to lease to the Japanese
Community is 21,700 Square Feet which the Director of
Public Works values in a minute copy enclosed, at $5,398.
2.
I cordially approve of this
scheme, which will help to prevent congestion in the Non-
-Christian Cemetery, and which I hope may be the first
step towards the substitution of orematoria for cemeteries
on this island, where space can ill be afforded for
constantly increasing burial grounds. I have, therefore,
the honour to request Your Lordship's sanction for grant-
-ing the Japanese Community a Crown Lease of the area in
question, at a nominal Crow Rent, for so long as the area
is used for the purposes of a crematorium and Chapel; and
for