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large saving involved. But it opened up for consideration

the question whether the frontage of Lots 81 and 34 with

the public road to South of them would now suffice for the

requirements of the passengers arriving by water without

sacrificing the berth for an Ocean Steamer the provision

of which was one of the chief reasons for the acquisition

of Blackhead's. Since this is one of the best deep water

berths in the Harbour the matter is in my opinion of the

first importance, and since its deep-sea frontage con-

-stitutes the chief value of the Lots, it would be im-

-politic and wasteful to sacrifice it to ferry boat

services and to thereby reduce the value of the land for

Store Buildings. Under the original scheme proposed by Sir

Matthew Nathan these considerations did not arise, for the

prolongation of the sea-wall to Blackhead's Point would

have provided ample deep-sea wharfage to the North-East

of the Lots.

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Your Lordship will observe that

on the plan which accompanied the Chief Resident Engineer's

letter of 15th. February, 1907, (copy of which was en-

-closed in Sir Matthew Nathan's Despatch of 21st. March,

1907) the passenger wharf is shewn projected from the road

between Lots 34 and 88. The assignment of such a position

was