CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8] — Page 171

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low tide. After allowing for settle

ment

بجے کے

soft foundation, and

for the wearing and olawing action

of the

it aves,

the hip level of the

due will sink several

pierre- per due

feet below low- water. If the

stucture be brought

uch,

in the

livel belon

first instance, only to a

low water its subsequent subsidence

will ena

ble

bo ats of light

Juin - to steam ever it with im

traught punity, and it would then cease to be a defence against te fier bo ats. The two ends of the break be raised above high

uaterm

may wahr and finished off with Incall lowers for Warbour Light.

otre

gar is the cost of construction, 8 the War Office expressed a wish to see this important defensic - work carried out at the entire

9

charges of the Colonial Govermaent and by way of an inducement offend 4 withdrew, from

sime Colenial Government lands at Haulcon, certam restriction against build which had been mepeseed by

ago

the War Department itself in pre- but which restrictions

nous

teert

years,

ronsequence

lenger necessary in

of

& charge of plans,

in the proposed defence of theution.

It was

assumed ni W. C. Eev

patch No 2020 of 36th Irely, 1887. that the

money

سمجھ

value to the Colonial

Treasury of this renunciation of military rights at Keution would

about £ ́'10'000.

Acone

تم میر

, arbat

this high extimate was band

the

wrong interpretation of an Extinct years ago by the Cilenial ment while showed that

made 3.

Government

the

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