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one account only should be kept. This is advisable for the sake of simplicity if for nothing else. But it is the more just way, because it gives every lot-owner his portion of the reclamation at the average cost of the labour and materials employed in the whole work.
Furthermore I think it would be well to carry out the Praya East Reclamation in one piece, and not section by section. The first thing to be done would be to raise the levels of the present Praye, and reconstruct all sewers and drains. This would enable all new buildings to be adjusted to the permanent levels, and connected with the sewers and drains once and for all. The next thing to be done would be to push out the sewers and drains for a distance of about 500 feet from Praya Fall, followed by a fringe of earth embankment, about 300 feet wide, extending the whole way from Arsenal Street to East Point. The most southerly blocks of buildings could then be erected on the Reclamation, while the drains, sewers, and earth embankment were being pushed out as before. It may be found convenient in some cases to build corrugated iron godowns, and to shift them out, step by step, as the reclamation advances.
(8a.) J. P. Boulton.
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