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been

fixed upon for these additional Shoops, as it has been reported upon by the Army Medical Men as likely to be unhealthy, and unfit for permanent occupation by troops, and yet, directly accommodation

is wanted,

this

very

so called objectionable area is

taken possession of and for

the purpose,

as Sir Hope Grant states, of testing the Sanatory properties "of the place", and to effect this desirable object the

site objected to by the Army Medical men is selected for the trial.

for

I hold

very different opinions from the Doctors who object to this site, but its present occupation I maintain is highly objectionable from every point of view

I consider it desirable that even the temporary Military and Civil locations should be kept as distinct as possible, and if the Military

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are allowed to spread themselves over the whole Peninsula, and to appropriate for next summer,

Napier's Range and

Land

adjoining, there will be no other place left but the vacant spaces within ground applied for by them for their permanent Cantonment, for the erection of the Civil Commissioner's Residence, Temporary Court House, Gaol, Police

Barracks and other Civil Buildings, which it will be

necessary to provide for carrying on the Civil Government of the place until the arrival of the formal instrument incorporating the New territory with this Colony

Further, if the Military demands are acceded

to at home, a double movement will have to take place if the present unauthorised occupation of the Land referred to, is sanctioned by His Excellency the Governor; the Civil Buildings will have to be