CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 205

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line - attempts which had been largely balked by the opposi-

tion of junk owners and other interested parties.

This ind

Dr. hun, after alluding to the advantages of a line to "hm-

pon an Homan Islani, to bring forward an old favourite pro-

jant of his for filling in the front roach of the riva“ be-

swean the city of Tanton and Fonam, along which reclamation

the loepling night run. This whilst benefiting both the

Hty and the Honen Juburb, he remarked, would obvisse the

building of bridges se sonment the two and leave the whole

of the brak resah wvailable for shipping purposes.

disposed to agron with his, I pointed out how grant would be

the expenditure on such an undertaking, as comparat with the

relatively small cost of a line turning through, or to the

Forth of, the 71sy. I added that it would take yours to

eremite, wharema for purposes of conwaying material for the

completion of the trunk ling to "askrow the loop lina was an

inseliste necessity i that moreover it was an hydralio

problem which would rewire onreful thinking out.

I then proceeded to diemuss the question of the attitude

of the foreign - and more particularly the British

- pross

towards him, which, I was given to understand, he sonsiderod

unfriendly. Pisolaining any personal knowledge of the mo-

sivon, by which the press was actuated, I amid that I could

only suppose that, like myself, thasa sonnerned felt that

many of the schemes which he publicly advoontoi were in-

practicable and inopportune. What thora was also no doubt

that

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