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Q-I mean that part of the work which concerns your relations with the Department. For instance, have you found that the Department has dealt with all your applications readily, or have there been delays?
A-In some cases there have been delays, but, in the majority of cases, I have found that any applications I have made have been answered in fairly reasonable time. There are, however, cases in which there have been delays.
Q-What do you think these delays have been due to ?
A-I should say to the staff being too small.
Q-Have you sufficient knowledge of the Department to b staff is not sufficient?
A-You are speaking of the last fourteen or fifteen years ?
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Q-We want to know whether the staff at the present time is sufficient or not?
A-I don't know the amount of work they have to do.
Q-You are not sufficiently conversant with the Departinent to be able to answer my question?
A-No.
Q-Then, so far as your relations with the Public Works Department are con- cerned, are you satisfied, or have you any suggestion to make with regard to improving matters ?
A-I should like to have been more prepared. I did not know what kind of questions were to be asked and it is rather hard to answer off hand a question like that. If I had time to think I might be able to give you an answer.
Q-If you would like to put your views in writing, I am sure the members of the Commission will be very glad to see them.
A-I will do so."
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By Mr. Master.-Do you say you received prompt attention to your applica tions in the Department?
A-In some cases.
Q-Speaking generally, do you say your applications were promptly attended to?
A-Yes. I got answers to them most promptly as a rule.
Q-And your plans, are they returned promptly or is there delay ?
A-There is no delay in returning the plans so much, but we arc asked questions which we consider more or less superfluous and that causes slight delay. But, on the whole, we get our plans back quite as promptly as elsewhere. I had some experience in England, and I found that here we have not to wait anything like the time at home. I was in Leeds a very large town-and we very seldom got our plans back in less than ten days.
By Mr. Shewan.-Do you think the Public Works Department is very hard- worked here ?
A-I could not say.
By Colonel Brown.-Are your plans and applications mostly in connection with the Building Ordinance?
A-Yes, as a rule.
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