CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6] — Page 271

تو با

266

defence. It also provided that land in the occupation of the War Department when no longer required for the purpose of Military

Defence, was to revert to the Civil Government (this would have

prohibited any transfer of land from War Office to Admiralty). On

Admiralty representation to Colonial Office, they agreed that Naval

Works, equally with Military, were for the purposes of defence, and since that time several inter-departmental transfers of such

lands have been directly effected.

There are, however, cases where the transfer is not actually for defence purposes, but for some particular object not common to

Admiralty and War Office, but special to one of them. For instance, at The Cape certain lands have been transferred to the Admiralty for. temporary use in connection with the Dockyard Extension Works. These clearly could not be transferred to another Department.

Also the Admiralty and War Office have a joint Recreation Ground at South Point in Cape Colony. In 1902 the Admiralty asked the War Office whether they would be willing to hand over the site permanently to them. The War Office stated that they were unable to do this, as the site was Colonial Military land which reverts to the Colony when no longer required by the War Department.

Jamaica Cemetery seems to have been another instance of

special reservation.

In the case of Munro Battery at the Cape, the grant was to the War Office. Under the terms of the grant, it could not be disposed of without the previous decision of the Secretary of State

It was, however, for the Colonies and the Board of Ordnance. transferred to the Admiralty, the War Office having first obtained the concurrence of the Colonial Office.

Instances