CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 234

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suddenly stopped.

in so

far

quite admit that

as the boundary

of the rifle range

exercise

and

ground proposed

to be still reserved for those purposes

was shown

on the map to embrace any building lots- in regard

to which the Colonial

Government is in difficulties as above

described - it was an

unintentional mistake-

Qo

as

231

I recognize that the basis

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of the settlement, is that the Government should be set free from all the trammels it had brought upon itself in this respect.

On the other hand

when dir G. William Des Vœux speaks of the small amount of land to be set free in return for the large expenditure demanded, it is entirely overlooked that while the expenditure is that

estimated

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