CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12] — Page 209

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on it was incurred.

The idea of placing the

Gaol on this site has therefore been abandoned but attention.

has been recently directed to Stonecutters Island - the site. of the original gaol in this Colony. which had hitherto

been supposed to be not in

the category of available sites owing to Military requirements which I think may be longer insisted on and to

other

causes,

be no

the Committee -

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are now considering the comparative merits of this site, and ifites :

found

one; a

to be the most desirable

separate communication will be made to Your Lordship with regard to the question of Military reserved rights

the site.

delay

I regret the has occurred, but I may

over

that

mention that even had a

site been selected at the

year

it

beginning of the would have been utterly

impossible

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