CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8] — Page 319

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foreshore to the East of the Naval Yard, it is the bable intention of my Go-

vernment, as soon as the Western reclamation is

completed, to undertake the reclamation of the har- bour front from Arsenal

Street to East Point, a dis-

tance of nearly a mile, ~ and thereby add about 50

to the building

acres

of Victoria.

area

The plans for the Naval Yard

now

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submitted shew a

Yard long ourving

rubble mound

ending at the present Praya front at Arsenal Street. This

rubble mound would col

leet all the floating gar-

bage

and filth from the foreshore between Arsenal

Street and East Point and would probably become an

intolerable nuisance to m

in or

or employed in the Naval Yard

those living by day

especially during those dry

monthe