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Mr. Bramston replied under date of

the 8th. August, 1895, that "as the land formerly held by

Mr. Findlay Smith will be required permanently for Military

purposes the Secretary of State concurred in the proposal

that the rent should be capitalized at 25 years' purchase",

but added that the land will however remain subject to

the Crown Lease in other respects".

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This particular case formed a

sufficiently close parallel to that of Spring Gardens to

justify me in treating the latter on the same lines al-

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-though this Government might have argued that the radical

distinction due to the fact that Spring Gardens was not

permanently required for Military purposes and that Mr.

Findlay Smith's property is so required, justified it in

still insisting on the actual terms upon which the Crown

Rent of Spring Gardens was remitted. I therefore made the

proposal contained in my Despatch of the 12th. of February

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last.

The War Office, however, now

refuse to accept my proposal and argue that the waiving of

the Crown Rent on Spring Gardens by the Colony in 1859 was

in fact a contribution by the Colony to its permanent

defence fund and that to decline to credit the war De- -partment

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