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Medical Authorities _ the restriction

would appear

lobe

even leve.

necessary; The nearest point where

house can be built on the South

of Remedy Road to

orde

any

barracks is distant from them not bes than 1,000 feet. With the exception of those

on the outer

ed

edge of the town, all

ge-of

the European houses in Victoria, Government House including shelf, have other house built on the slope above them at a less distance than this. So that the maintenance of this restriction at so enormous a cost to the

Colonial Government is a precaution on behalf of the soldier which is deaned necessary for

no one else

in the consumemity. As the land above Kennedy Road is meluded in the Exeropean district, constituted under the recently passed Ordinances ; so that no Chinese houses can be

built

built there, and as

Government has

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the Colonial

ut has expressed its

readiness to provide in the leases

any reasonable anitary Conditions the Military Authorities may

require, it seems to me that valid objection

Cau

tio

any longer

be entertained) to the utilisation of the ciles, or, at all events, that the object to be

gained by the restriction is so extremely shadows, as to be utterly disproportionate

to the

of

enormous

sacrifice involved. As regards the second suggestion:

Mr Price, viz : the Co

Co-operation of the War Department in the Praya Extension, -work absolutely

a

necessary for the Convenience and health of the general population, military

as well as civil, Ishould

be unable to regard this

Concession, ev

even if

að a

the War Departing

received no more direct gain frome

it