CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5] — Page 566

Secretary of State for War, referred only to the site of the depression range find. --ing pedestal I could understand it,

apparently,

but

he

to assure

Kot the Military Reverie rights aban- -donment over the land required by

the Dock Company.

equivalent to a handing over of the portion of War Se=

"partment lands required

o far as the

so

conditions of the Circular Despatch of 30th December 1894 are concerned.

Now the history and position

of the particular portion of the Military Reverve where the Jock Company has been permitted to extend its dock ac=

-commodation is dealt with in Mr Pot- lock's further tenute of 12th March 1897 in these papers, and that Minute, if sent to the Right Stonourable the Secretary of Stoke might be useful as explaining the position with regard to the land referred to in his despatch.

I have been to the Land Office

brat

Kor April

an

558

my formal

out I cannot find there record of the title of the Militaryshnes

Porities to much

of

the land

they seem

to clain.

It seems to me that when per-

petual

wwer

lito are

" rights

are conferred on thi

_litary Authorities some formal docu: what rights - mont exactly defining what

have been conferred should be drawn. up and recorded at the Land Office. Dr W. Meigh Goodman,

1t Shang, 1897.

Attorney General.

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