46
GA
purposes
for the annual cost of the Imperial
garrison including all capital
expenditure required for military
lands and buildings,
it we not be right to suppose that
he Military Lands Account
KANGA
suggested by the 'ir ļinistry, provides for
"the free provision of lands When the
obligations of the Colony in regard
to defence were defined, it was found
necessary to make special arrangements
regarding certain Colonial military lands
and buildings, that is to say, lands, the fee
simple of which was vested in the Crown
represented by the Colonial Government,
but of which the War Department had a
right of perpetual user for purposes of
defence. It was accordingly decided that
Colonial military lands and buildings no
the War Department
longer required by His Majesty's Government
for defen
in Hay Kong.
should be surrendered free to the Colonel Gort
on the
condition
I that,
enseroment by the Colony that, in
the event of lands and buildings being
required