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they are situated to any other purpose as long as the Ranges continued in use.
The area proposed to be devoted to the new Ranges, which is of a very similar formation to that occupied by the old, is in all 235 acres, the flatter portion of the valley, where the Ranges will be constructed amounting to 73 acres, and the hill slopes behind, which it is necessary to reserve, to 162 acres.
The effect of the proposal in (a) and (b) of your Despatch under acknowledgment therefore is that the Colony should set apart for the use of the Military Authorities as Rifle Ranges an area of 235 acres in exchange for one of 93 acres occupied by the present Ranges and should in addition pay the sum of $493,177 although an amount of $319,770 has already been allowed in the valuation for building land in the old Reserves.
8.
I am not without hope that when the facts I have set forth above are fully considered the Imperial Department will on re-consideration abandon the claim to the sum of $493,177 in respect of half the area to be devoted to the 'King's Park'.
It is my earnest hope that such will be their decision. But should my estimate of their sense of what is fair and just to the Colony be belied, then I must request that the Committee who recommended the formation of the 'King's Park and the Legislative Council, who are intimately concerned seeing that a sum of nearly half a million dollars is involved, be informed of the terms on which the area for the Park is acquired.
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they are situated to any other purpose as long as the Ranges
continued in use.
The area proposed to be devoted to the
new Ranges, which is of a very similar formation to that oc- cupied by the old, is in all 235 acres, the flatter portion of the valley, where the Ranges will be constructed amounting to 73 acres, and the hill slopes behind, which it is necessary
to reserve, to 162 acres.
The effect of the proposal in (a) and (b)
of your Despatch under acknowledgment therefore is that the
Colony should set apart for the use of the Military Authori-
ties as Rifle Ranges an area of 235 acres in exchange for
one of 93 acres occupied by the present Ranges and should in
addition pay the sum of $493,177 although an amount of $319,770
has already been allowed in the valuation for building land
in the old Reserves.
8.
I am not without hope that when the facts
I have set forth above are fully considered the Imperial De-
partment will on re-consideration abandon the claim to the sum
of $493,177 in respect of half the area to be devoted to the
'King's Park*.
It is my earnest hope that such will be
their decision. But should my estimate of their sense of what
is fair and just to the Colony be belied, then I must request
that the Committee who recommended the formation of the 'King's
Park and the Legislative Council, who are intimately concerned
seeing that a sum of nearly half a million dollars is involved,
be informed of the terms on which the area for the Park is
acquired.
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