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and the curve of the Railway in the South- -East that their value was almost destroyed. This resumption would therefore have been
very costly, and it would seem to involve
a comparative small additional expenditure
to buy them outright.
(b) Scheme 2 involved a levee crossing over Robinson Road the Main North and South Artery of the
Peninsula, practically cutting off its pro-
-longation to the sea-front except as an
(c)
(a)
(e)
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cess to the Station from the sea-side.
Scheme 3 saves entirely that portion of Salisbury
Road which lies Westward of Robinson Road.
It enhances the value of the eventual pier at
the end of Robinson Road which will be the
closest to the Station.
The Station will also be close to the deep-sea
wharf at Blackhead's.
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On the other hand the cost of
land resumption will in the immediate present be somewhat
greater since the land to be occupied by the Station under
Scheme 2 was for the most part Crown land, while the whole
of Lots 1141 618 which must be resumed under Scheme 3
are in private ownership. I do not,however, myself regard
this as a serious objection for the real cost if the value
of the Crown Land is taken into consideration is much
greater under Scheme 2 than under Scheme 3, and in any
proper calculation of the cost of the Railway to the Colony
the
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