CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5] — Page 186

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(b) "Some of the Surveys mentioned have already been taken in hand by the Royal Engineer Department, while the remainder are in progress. With regard to this latter point, the Major-General or General has reported that there is no staff in the employment of the Civil Government competent to perform Military work of this nature. I submit that, even if this were otherwise, Military surveys ought, for obvious ... reasons, to be carried out according to an approved and uniform Military system, and by the Military Engineers now in the Colony. I should mention that the Major-General Commanding on this station entirely agrees with me on this subject.

5. I need scarcely assure Your Lordship that I am, personally, most anxious to co-operate cordially with the War Office in England, and with the local Military Authorities here, in all measures calculated to improve and extend the now very imperfect defences of this outpost of the British Empire. And I can also assure you that the Executive and Legislative Councils of this...

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183 (b) "Some of the Surveys mentioned have already been taken in hand by the Royal Engineer Department, while the remainder are in progress. With regard to this latter point, the Major-General or General has reported that there is no staff in the employment of the Civil Government competent to perform Military work of this nature. I submit that, even if this were otherwise, Military surveys ought, for obvious ... reasons, to be carried out according to an approved and uniform Military system, and by the Military Engineers now in the Colony. I should mention that the Major-General Commanding on this station entirely agrees with me on this subject. 5. I need scarcely assure Your Lordship that I am, personally, most anxious to co-operate cordially with the War Office in England, and with the local Military Authorities here, in all measures calculated to improve and extend the now very imperfect defences of this outpost of the British Empire. And I can also assure you that the Executive and Legislative Councils of this...

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all measures calculated to

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of this outpost of the British Empire.

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