CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4] — Page 481

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What I recommend is

that as the

Colony

has in

over

to

- the past always shewn itself ready to give the War Department whatever lands were required in connection with defence

purposes,

so the War Department should surrender to the

Colony such of those lands

at it no longer requires, subject to the conditions mentioned in the Duke of Newcastle's despatch which

I

I have quoted above.

The question (referred

to in the memorandum

which a

accompanied Your Lordship's Circular despatch of the 9th of June, 1890) of the Colony's contribution towards

the cost of increased barrack

accommodation which

may

from time to time become

of the

to increases

necessary owing

the garrison, should in my opinion be dealt with apart and considered on its

merite

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