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an arrangement to be avoided if possible. And that in the event of the Military Cantonment being placed on this site, it would be found practicable to deepen the Harbour sufficiently without placing Battery 'a' the point £, which in such case would become very valuable for Commercial purposes.
As the expediency from a Military point of view of permanently quartering the bulk of the European Garrison in Hong Kong or Howbor apart from the seat of Government and the principal public and private Establishments, and the large expense which the arrangements will unavoidably entail cannot fail to attract serious attention in the proper quarter,
I advert to these points here merely for the purpose of remarking that the number of Troops to be accommodated touches very closely the question of the selection of the site for their Cantonment, that portion of the site pointed out by the Governor in regard to the superior advantages of which I
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an arrangement to be avoided it possible. And that in the event of the Military buntonment being placed on this site, it would be found practicable to defered the Harbour sufficiently
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from the seat of Government and the principal public and private Establishments, and the large expense which the arrangements will unavoidably entail cannot fail to attract serious attention in the proper quarter,
I advert to these points here morely for the purpose of remarking that the number of Troops to be accorreodated touches very closely the question of the selection of the site for their Cantonment, that portion of the site
pointed out by the Governor in regard to the superior advantages of which I
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