CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890 — Page 510

In such circumstances,

507

there

would not remain sufficient Clearing Department property to surrender

in order to meet the cost

of carrying

out the Causeway Bay scheme for the rest of the Garrison.

I am to request that you will suspend all steps for building under the Imperial Defence Loan at Victoria and that you

will concentrate your

attention on

Barracks at

Point and on

the question of providing

Lyeman

and Belcher's

getting possession of the

Lazzaretto at Stonecutter's Island.

I have the honour to be,

Sir.

Your obedient Servant, (signed) Lothian Nicholson,

I. G. F.

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