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

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