CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8] — Page 403

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do this way

the Naval premises which are at the present moment practically bereft of any significance whatsoever by the silted foreshore may again be made accessible to small craft at all times of tide.

As regards the interposition of a public road between the Naval Yard and the sea, which may be an obstruction, I am inclined to point out that unfortunately the obstruction already exists in the shape of large accumulations of silt, and that what is now sought to be done is not so much the formation of a strip of land between the Yard and the sea, as reducing that which already exists into convenient shape and order, and the reutilizing it for traffic by converting it into a quay to be laid with a current that will give full scope to the action of the tides, serving twice a day, and this will arrest the formation of further deposits.

Although the Colony is attached great importance to the formation of the new road and prepared to make great sacrifices for the attainment of it...

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402 3. do this way the Naval premises which are at the present moment practically bereft of any significance whatsoever by the silted foreshore may again be made accessible to small craft at all times of tide. As regards the interposition of a public road between the Naval Yard and the sea, which may be an obstruction, I am inclined to point out that unfortunately the obstruction already exists in the shape of large accumulations of silt, and that what is now sought to be done is not so much the formation of a strip of land between the Yard and the sea, as reducing that which already exists into convenient shape and order, and the reutilizing it for traffic by converting it into a quay to be laid with a current that will give full scope to the action of the tides, serving twice a day, and this will arrest the formation of further deposits. 4. Although the Colony is attached great importance to the formation of the new road and prepared to make great sacrifices for the attainment of it...

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402

do thiss

way

the Naval premises which are at the

present moment practically bereft of any sex finitage whatsoever by the witlying foreshore may again made accesible to small craft at all times of tide.

As regard. the inter-

position of a public road

between the Naval Yard and.

the

Real

which

my an abstruction,

Lords fear

might prove

reveld point out that unfortu nately the obstruction already evists in the chape of large accumulations of all, and that

sought to be done,

what

is now

is not es much the formation

the

of a strip of land betimen the Yard and the sea, as reducing of that which already

shape and

it-for

eisists, into con

order, and the reitilizing it for

traffic by converting it into

quay

to be laid wit

currer

that will give full scope to action of the tides

the serving

twice.

-a-day,

and this arrest

the formation of further defresch Although the Colony

کچھ

are to the

allaches great in

great importame

formation of the new road and prepared to make great sacrifices for the attainment

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