CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7] — Page 609

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in the 12 para: of suggested in the the War Department letter. According to an estimate

made by

by the late Surveyor General in January 1889 the reclamation of the ~

a

-reaching from Murray

Pier to Arsenal Street

would cost $691,000 and the amount reclaimed would be about 12-16 acres.

My proposal on behalf of the Colonial Government

is that this reclamation

should

should be at once undertaken

and excouted by the Public Work's Department at a cost to the Imperial Government

on

of $1.50 a square foot o behalf of the Naval and Military Departments, that The Public Works Department

should erect whatever Walls, Basins and Piers and means

of a

access

to the sea that

may be required by those Departments, they paying the actual cost thereof, that

the