CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10] — Page 348

2.

of the Surveyor Powercel's report on the o of the lands and foreshore applied

value

for; which he estimates at £146, 700,

that is, at

♦nore/

than

One

fifth of the

anmeal public / revenue of this Colony which does not exceed £220,000. A will

lic remembered that it how becouse

necessary

to raise a

the

· loaw for caccution of the Works of Defence, sucitation and Water Supply sanctioned by the Imperial Government; and that the the sule and leave of the public lauds is regarded as the principal resource for gradually recouping this

produce of the

expenditure

t

As the object of the actension

of the Naval premises is to accommodate

3.

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that of sucaller area than the revention

cxeres set forth in your plan 1:

suffice for the purpose; and that

you might be requested to consider whether the rectangular sprece, 900 feet by

400 feet, annexed tracing would neeet, requirements.

warked A,B,C.D. in the

your

4. Expon receipt of your reply.

on this this

· point, I will love no time in laying the whole correspondence

before the Secretary of State for the

Colonies who will doubtless communicate

with the Lorets Comunissioner of the Aducirally and then inform

Her

by tebgraph of the decision of Nor

Majesty,

Government on the entire

by

Fecestion.

5.

I need scarcely say

that on

the new

lorpedo boats to be sent out the Admiralty, it has been enggested.

that

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