CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2] — Page 301

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That proposal has after much debate been finally withdrawn.

There is also reason to doubt the views of the principal medical officers as to the eligibility of Mr Duddell's lot as being more central than the present site. It certainly is more central in one sense, being nearer the centre of a map of the town, but not as central in another and more important sense, because it is not nearer the population for whose aid the Civil Hospital is principally intended.

Therefore it must be conceded that eventually it would have been better if the Government had never given notice of resumption of Mr. Duddell's lots, No 15 of 20 Feb. 1869, to have been enabled to abandon that notice, on Mr. Duddell's expressing dissatisfaction at the price fixed.

Nevertheless from the peculiarly commanding and important position occupied by the ground in question, it may be doubted whether after all it is not foreseeable that the

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That proposal has after much debate been finally withdrawn. There is also reason to doubt the views of the principal medical officers as to the eligibility of Mr Duddell's lot as being more central than the present site. It certainly is more central in one sense, being nearer the centre of a map of the town, but not as central in another and more important sense, because it is not nearer the population for whose aid the Civil Hospital is principally intended. Therefore it must be conceded that eventually it would have been better if the Government had never given notice of resumption of Mr. Duddell's lots, No 15 of 20 Feb. 1869, to have been enabled to abandon that notice, on Mr. Duddell's expressing dissatisfaction at the price fixed. Nevertheless from the peculiarly commanding and important position occupied by the ground in question, it may be doubted whether after all it is not foreseeable that the
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That proposal has after much tides. d. to Gar?

debate been finally withdrawn.

There

is also reason to doubt the

reason to doubt the views of

as to

the principal medical officers the eligibility of Mr Duddell's lote

As

being

acer

to them more

ding

present

central than the

site. It

certainly is more central in one sense,

ao

being

mearer

The centre of a map

of the town, but not as central in

d

299

another and more important sense,

n because it is not nearer

The

population for whose aid the Qvil Hospital is principally intended.

b.

Therefore it must be conceded

that eventually it would have bette evited thire Government

given any

never to have notice of resumption of

No 15 of 20 Fely.

Mr. Luddell's lots,

to have been

1869.

enabled to abandon that notice,

on M. Duddell's expressing difatisfaction

at the price fixed.

7

Nevertheless from the peculiarly commanding and important position occupied by the ground in question,

by doubled whether after

it

may

all it is not fortemale that the

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