CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12] — Page 208

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reclaimed land lying there,

would be a most desirable and remunerative work as rendering the land attractive for commercial or industrial enterprises, I called for reports from the Sanitary Superintendent and Resident Engineer of Water and Drainage Department.

These officers reported that in their opinion there

• nothing in the situation of the site to render it.

was

unhealthy

and that all.

the

that

that was

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required to render it

salubrious was an efficient

subsoil drainage, for

which

the Resident Engineer has-

since submitted

a detailed reports were

scheme. These reports

referred to the Committee above

referred to who reported that although a thorough system of subsoil drainage might render the site heal

results

healthy,

the

of such works should be tested before the heavy- expenditure of building a Gaol

on

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