CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892 — Page 404

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Land not required for military purposes will revest to the Colony - the Colony however being bound to make reasonable compensation for the improvements which have been effected on the abandoned site - and also (that) if the abandonment imposes on the Imperial Government the necessity of procuring a fresh site elsewhere, that site must be acquired at the expense of the Colony.

This arrangement was very limited in its scope, and is inapplicable to present circumstances, and there appears to be no sufficient reason for setting aside in its favour the principles recently laid down in the memorandum accompanying the Colonial Office circular of the 9th of June 1890.

9. Mr Secretary Stanhope regrets further that he is unable to accede to the proposal that the question of the mode of valuing abandoned sites should be submitted to some

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401 which are as # follows: Land not required for military purposes will revest to the Colony - the Colony however being bound to make reasonable compensation for the improvements which have been effected on the abandoned site - and also (that) if the abandonment imposes on the Imperial Government the necessity of procuring a fresh site elsewhere, that site must be acquired at the expense of the Colony. This arrangement was very limited in its scope, and is inapplicable to present circumstances, and there appears to be no sufficient reason for setting aside in its favour the principles recently laid down in the memorandum accompanying the Colonial Office circular of the 9th of June 1890. 9. Mr Secretary Stanhope regrets further that he is unable to accede to the proposal that the question of the mode of valuing abandoned sites should be submitted to some
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401

which are as

#

follows:

Land not required for military purposes

will revest to the

Colony - the

Colony however " being bound to make reasonable compensation " for the improvements which have been effected " on the abandoned site - and ales (that) if " the abandonment imposes

on the Imperial "Government the necessity of procuring a " fresh site elsewhere, that site must be

the Colony.

: acquired at the expense of

This arrangement

was

Very

limited in its

scope, and is inapplicable to present circumstances, and there appears to be no sufficient

Hator

for setting aside in its favour the principles

Ko

recently

laid down in the memorandum

accompanying

of

the

the Colonial Office circular

9th of June 1890.

9. Mr Secretary Stanhope regrets further that he is unable to accent to the proposal. the that the question of the mode of valuing abandoned sites should be submitted to

some

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