CO129-577-3 Proposed transfer of military barracks to alternative site 30-1-1939 - 14-12-1939 — Page 42

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no longer required for military

purposes. Is it suggested, for

instance, that in such an event

the new site, together with any

buildings which may have been

erected on it, should be surrendered

by the War Department, and be dealt

with as Colonial Military lands

and buildings for the purposes

of the Colonial Military Lands

Account, i.e., the realised value

of the land, and of so much of

the value of the buildings as:

was defrayed from the original

payment of $5,000,000 should be

handed over to the Colonial

Government subject to a debit

against the Colonial Government

in the Colonial Military Lands

Account? Furthermore, in the

absence of further information

as to the reasons which would

justify the adoption of a

special