CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12] — Page 417

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establishment. It was

an

formerly

hotel and is, therefore,

inconvenient,

in many ways apart from the fact that there is not sufficient- ground about the house to admit of giving out of

door entertainments.

house is

The rent paid for the

low owing

to

very the general depression, but represents as it is about 41%

on the capital proposed to

new building, be spent on the new

and

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and it would be impossible

to secure the house at such

a low figure for a term "It will therefore, years.

of

J

think, be cheaper to build

house than to

a new

renting

6.

one.

go

on

The house designed

no means

by M. Cooper is by on an extravagant seale, ~ and it will afford

No more

accommodation than is

reasonably necessary. It is

a house in the same

style,

though

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