CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3] — Page 265

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to the owners of the Lots, but the claim has been settled

for $308,586 including interest and all costs and expenses.

I will address you in a separate Despatch on the subject.

3.

Soon after his arrival Mr. E. S,→

Lindsey drew attention to certain objections to the site

selected for the temporary Terminus, and suggested that to

overcome these objections the Station should be placed on

the site between Macdonnell Road and Robinson (Nathan)

Road, in accordance with the plan enclosed.

The subject was discussed at a

Railway Meeting on the following day, when Mr. Lindsey

expressed the opinion, subject to modification after

further consideration, that, apart from other objections,

the site proposed for the complete scheme for the per-

-manent Terminus was inadequate, and that to meet the

development of future years it would probably become

necessary to resume Marine Lot No. 10 to the westward of

the site and to throw the intervening portion of Macdonnell

Road into the Station site. After a very full discussion

of the matter I requested Mr. Lindsey to furnish me with

his considered views on the subject and I now enclose a

copy of a revised report which he has substituted for one

furnished on the 15th. of December, in consequence of a

re-consideration