CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8] — Page 393

14.

15.

· stating

at the same live my

readiness to cause a

eurisey to be

mide of the foreshore at the expence

9.

of the lot-holders..

should mention, the enormous.

At this time, I

fac

and estimates have shown as

profit which the subsequent survey likely

to be realised by the lot-owner

under the

arrangement

then

- exclusively contemplated, had not

my conception. Indeed

entered into my

I doubt whether it was

anticipated

they

by the lot - owners themselves, or

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would oc

scarcely have cared to risk it by bargaining about conditions of comparatively trifling importance. I knew of

ona ke

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course that they would :

profit.

hahidsome

or they would

be melikely to be so interested, but

I had not the least idea that it

would amount to such a sum as!

Five millions of Dollars, exclusively

of the profit of the Government

reclamation in

property.

10.

front of its own

But, though on this :

account I did not see

ground for

proposing, as against the lot-holders,

would

any