CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7] — Page 613

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doubt occupied a dominant position but certainly within the last 25 or 30 years a gun fired from Murray Battery would have done infinite

damage

to the finest and wealthiest portion of the : Colony, and the battery - itself would have been

of danger rather~ than of protection. This

source

Ruin however has been

tenaciously held by the War Department for

period

ar

а

period of a quarter of a - century during which it has been perfectly

useless

and has become an

to the neighbourhood.

13.

eyesore

In such circumstances

the site should be restored

to the Colonial Government: without delay. The question of reasonable compensation for improvements cannot possibly

arise in this

case;

it would be more to the

point to ascertain what

loss

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