CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6] — Page 492

the moon of twenty-five thousand dollars ($3000s) has abreaty been

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volia.

2.

The shape of the valley it oral or rather egg-shaped, and

the wrth ein where it is the seas it is, surranded

is open

bymamphitheatre of hills about one thoms and but high.

3

in the rainy

whole of there kille

rainy season Kee

thais

pour

drainage with the valley, the water finding its escape to the den through the marrow stream which runs paralert to the race-course, and through other maller water ways which meander through the meators and which often subarage

Thes

these during heavy rainstorms.

4.

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It is proposed to raise the

entire level of the upper portion of

the valley markes "Cricket fired and "Polo

but

"

ground and the counting carriage road (see tracing)

by spreading

I feet

over it a

it a layer of earth

thick in the centre

gradually

sloping dovier to is feet at the sides,

and tapering off to nothing along.

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of

thi

propose duke or

stream masked A. A. A.

In this reclamation

0

time separate systerns of drainage must be provided. 10 the underpromo drainage of the natural soil so as to render it dry for some feet beneath the surface and thud fit

for

it