CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 248

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the Government have assumed

icabilities avvi

erving

to their irregular

provide to grant building leases,

General is quite prepared

the

Najor

to modify

the boundaries to meet.

the difficulty.

5.

The other misapprehension.

thewer in the letter as to

12h The alleged shallowness

alleged

shallowness of

water in Mirs Bay, and

2th? The supposed uselessness of

Northern defensive line,

any

have so often been advanced before,

and sO

completely

austvered,

to the

apparent satisfaction of Sir G. W.

Des Voeux, and of the Council, that

His Ascelleney

how they

is at a loss to knoo

can have again bean

brought forward except by

inadvertence.

In conclusion I am

to state that this very important - question of

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pt. The serious liabilities which

the

Governummer

ment has incurred by its action

the past

during

3 or 4 years in alienating

lands which had been

quaranteed as Military

Reserves in connection with the defence. 2nd The desirability of surmounting all difficulties so rincurred by facilitating. a removal of the defensive

by their action.

lvive

new

rendered useless - 10 another

spot, having

nearly reached

satisfactory conclusion

in the hurry of

( which only

His Excellency's departure on sick leave has been so abruptly broken off) it is hoped that this explanation may prevent тауралень the whole question being

again shelved, and that

the

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