CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4] — Page 222

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-hands of the first English occupiers, as much so as a newly discovered territory in the interior of Australia. Had the authorities of the first settlement thought proper to adopt the system already at that time enforced in laying out even the smallest town in the most remote district of every Australian Colony, they might have created here one of the most beautiful and salubrious cities on one of the grandest sites, and on the shores of one of the most magnificent harbours in the world.

world. But it appears that the early Civil and Military Authorities, though invested with practically unlimited power, made no adequate provision for drainage, for sanitation, for public buildings, and reserves for other public purposes, for future fortifications, for water supply - not even for the proper laying out of the streets. Whereas every village in Australia has streets one chain (sixty-six (66) feet) wide, even the two principal streets in this great City, namely, the Queen's Road and the

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10 શ 221 // -hands of the first English occupiers, as much so as a newly discovered territory in the interior of Australia. Had the authorities of the first settlement thought proper to adopt the system already at that time enforced in laying out even the smallest town in the most remote district of every Australian Colony, they might have created here one of the most beautiful and salubrious cities on one of the grandest sites, and on the shores of one of the most magnificent harbours in the world. world. But it appears that the early Civil and Military Authorities, though invested with practically unlimited power, made no adequate provision for drainage, for sanitation, for public buildings, and reserves for other public purposes, for future fortifications, for water supply - not even for the proper laying out of the streets. Whereas every village in Australia has streets one chain (sixty-six (66) feet) wide, even the two principal streets in this great City, namely, the Queen's Road and the

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10 શ 221 // -hands of the first English occupiers, as much so as a newly discovered territory in the interior of Australia. Had the authorities of the first. settlement thought proper to adopt the system already at that time enforced in laying out even the smallest town in the most remote. district of every Australian Colony, they might have created here one":" of the most beautiful and salubrious of the grandest sites, cities on one and on the shores of one of the most magnificent harbours in the world. world. But it appears that the early Civil and Military Authorities, though invested with practically unlimited. · power, made no adequate provision for drainage, for sanitation, for for public buildings, and reserves other public purposed, for future fortifications, for water supply- not even for the proper laying out of the streets. Whereas every village in Australia has streets one chain (sixty six (66) feet) wide even the two principal streets in this great City, namely, - the Queen's Road and the

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-hands of the first English occupiers,

much so as a

newly

discovered

territory in the interior of Australia. Had the authorities of the first. settlement thought proper to adopt the system already at that time enforced in laying out even the

smallest town in the most remote.

district of every Australian Colony, they might have created here one":" of the most beautiful and salubrious

of the grandest sites,

cities on one

and on the shores of one of the most magnificent harbours in the

world.

world. But it appears that the early Civil and Military Authorities, though invested with practically unlimited.

· power, made no adequate provision for drainage, for sanitation, for

for public buildings, and

reserves

other public purposed, for future fortifications, for water supply- not

even

for the proper laying out of the streets. Whereas every village

Australia has streets one chain

(sixty six (66) feet) wide

even

the

two principal streets in this great City, namely, - the Queen's Road and

the

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