Yara, 4 acres, and Kellett Island,
and Kellett Island, 1 acres, and
14
15
6
sheet A
о encl. to
XNo, Comon and leased to the Truster by the Col. Gostin
(Iresumably)
JAC
X They will retumit to the Was office in the first instance, ere paray. I of it inclosure in (1). JAC.
ae in occupation of 62 acres of Colonial lanu which
are used for magazines.
The Naval Canteen
shown in green in Plan 4,stanas on lana which is
x
If the the property of the Canteen Trustees. present proposal is approved, the Aamiralty will
remove their Arsenal to Stonecutter's Island,
1
will Should
hand over the presentarsenal Yaru sites and will
presumably (but this is not mentioned) restore the new magazine site to the Government.
61⁄2 ace
Kellet
Island, although vacated by the Admiralty, will apparently not be available for the Government to
sell as it will still be required by the Military.
Paragraph 3 of (6) is not very clear. Before
there was any question of the Aamiralty giving
up this Arsenal. an Agreement had been made by
which the lanu coloured blue on Plan A was to be
given by the Government to the Admiralty in
exchange for the land coloured yellow and the
Government was to pay the cost of reserecting the
Naval buildings on the new land (estimated at £16,743
bava 1 of
See lst enclosure to in this file.
Λ
It is
apparently this sum which is referred to in para-
apparently
A
graph 3, and what is meant seems to be that as this
the money
exchange is no longer necessary,
available for it will go towards the payment of
$2000,000. The question of the Naval Canteen
appears to have been settled finally by the Govern-
ment and is only mentioned as its settlement is one
of the conuitions of the proposed arrangement with
the Jumiralty.
The following points seem to me to
need