be at all times favourably disposed to defraying the cost of Military buildings new site, provided that such cost was within the value of an old site surrendered to them, but where the Imperial Government has acquired for a specific purpose a piece of land, which was at the time of comparatively small value, but has, through becoming incorporated in the City, perhaps, become of greatly enhanced value, and has no further use for such land, nor desires to replace it by land elsewhere, I certainly think that the land should revert unconditionally to the Colonial Government.
It would be incorrect to say that such land had been "gratuitously acquired" by the Colonial Government. It would be the fact that land
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be at all times favourably. disposed to defraying the cost of Military buildings
new site, provided
on a
that such cost was within
: the value of an old site surrendered to them, but
where the Imperial. Government has acquired for a specific purpose piece of land, which was at the time of comparatively small value, but has,
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through becoming incorporated
in
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in the City, perhaps, become
of greatly enhanced value,
and has no
further
use
for such land, nor desires to replace it by land -elsewhere, I certainly think
that the land should
revert unconditionally to the Colonial Government.
to say
It would be incorrect
that such land had been "gratuitously acquired" by the Colonial Government. It would be the fact that
land
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