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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference

THILUC.O./133

COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-

12 ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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and

under

executed.

of the Police to see properly execit Soure of the depots themselves me built of stone, average & feet square:

and 5 feet high at a cost of £70. 15.8.7.

Report and Externate Nr 9 of 1880. Report and lestirnate Nr 1 of 1885.

W.11 authorized to prevent further land slips on the Hill last of Seping than at Hollywood Road

: constant excavations by the itenants 5 for houses, and

to obtain level sites

the

below

the

want of efferent store drains, caused the failure of the ground. at each successive heavy shower of rain; this extended during whole of two wet season's, a School - -house fell down in consequence and other damages to private houses resulted, so that it became

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necessary for the Government to resume a considerable portion of the

Ground sold and construct works

dto.

for its preservation . This consisted in the formation of the ground to it's natural angle of repose, protecting. it at foot by a rough store svall ens side channel of stone, the direction of a stream into a stove channels: culvert, with grassing and planting

the whole area with f

with prickly pear.

The Road above will also be

"reformed and if, made with a proper inclination towards the hill and with side channels I "have no doubt that further slips will be prevented, but as much of the work has been done in the dry weather some care is demanded.