10. With a view to placing additional information before Your Grace I referred Lord Carnarvon's Despatch to the Surveyor General with instructions to give the subject such further information as Your Grace might probably require. I enclose his report, which more fully explains the obvious injustice of prohibiting the inhabitants of a city so peculiarly situated from having access to their harbor, unless for reasons of paramount and obvious importance.
11. In reference to the sanitary considerations involved, they are so extensive that nothing effective can be done except by combined action on the part of the Colonial, Military, and Naval authorities. So long as the General transmits plans for occupying one part of the foreshore, and the Naval authorities plans for dealing with another portion, whilst contrary to the spirit of Her Majesty's Regulations this Government is kept in the dark as to the nature and scope of those plans, it must be evident to Your Grace that the chances are diminished of any combined effort sufficient to effect an improvement which I make bold to say is of equal moment to all.
12. The lapse of time, by filling up the foreshore with the debris and filth discharged by the Military Nullah and other drains, is perhaps pressing forward the period when the necessity for such combined action as I suggest must be acknowledged as a remedy for evils which become intolerable.
13. In the meantime I suggest that I have clearly shown in my Despatch No. 178 the ...
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which is most
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offensive.
a view to
placing additional
information before Your Grace I referred Lord burnarvon's Despatch to the Surveyor General
with instructions to
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require.
give subject as Uour brace might probably
such further information
I enclose his report, which more
explains the obvious injustice of prohibiting
fully
the
inhabitants of
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city so peculiarly situated
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of paramount and obvious importance.
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11. In reference to the
sanitary
Considerations
are so extensive that
nothing
reasons
finvolved they
effective can
be done except by combined action
on the part of the Colonial, Military
and
Naval authorities. So long as the General transmito
plans for occupying
one
part of the foreshore,
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and the Naval authorities plans for dealing
with another
portion,
whilst
contrary to the
spirit of Her Majesty's Regulations this Government
is kept in the dark as to the nature and scope
of those plans, it must be evident to Your Grace that the chances are diminished of any
combined
effort sufficient to effect an improvement which Imake bold to
say
is
of equal moment to all.
12. The lapse of time by filling up the foreshore with the debris and filth discharged by the Military Nullah and other drains is perhaps
prefsing forward the period when the necefaity for such combined action as
acknowledged
I suggest
must be
as A evils which become intolerable, thereby necefpitate a remedy.
13. In the meantime I suggest
that I have
clearly shewn in my Despatch No 178 the
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