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Probably the fact that the greater portion

of the Reserve would be devoted to a Public Fark was lost sight of. Otherwise I feel sure that the instruction would have been that for such portion the value should be taken as the difference in its value as agricultural land subject to certain rights of user by the War Department and as common permanently alienated for the free use of the public; while the remainder of the reserve (not included in the Garden Lots) should be valued as

building land.

1 have accordingly put a mere nominal value

on the portion to be devoted to the "King's Fark". That seems

to me a fair and reasonable course and I trust that it will

commend itself to you.

It is obvious that if the land to be

devoted to the Park were to be valued as building land the cost to the Colony would be encreous and I fear that if the taxpayers

of this Colony were to learn that it was proposed to ask them

to pay in money or in money's worth a sum of some Three Million

Dollars (as valued by you) for land which is not War Department-.

Property at all but over which the War Department have only

certain rights and which is to be devoted to a Public Fark in the

enjoyment of which the whole Garrison will join equally with the

Civil Fopulation, a great outery would be made and the friction

which formerly existed concerning the Colony's contributions in

land and money towards defence purposes would be revived.

Futting all questions of equity aside the

Colony cannot afford to make a Fublic Fark at the cost involved

if the method of valuation to which you direct my attention be

adopted, and if it be insisted upon I shall have no course left

open