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come
of professional advice to private individuals (and which being totally unconnected _____ with Government, duties might under the category of private practice) is entirely due the improved standard of
our-
street architecture so
apparent of late
years and which is gradually metamorphosing
the
more
appearance of Victoria. Other far s important but invisible reforms in..
domestic sanitation also
directly
due to
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the private advice of the Department, accompany these architectural improvements all tending to the eventual increased health and welfare of the community. With these facts before us it is clear it would be irrational and impolitic prohibit the Surveyor General if the
to
pleases to do it, from giving professional advice by virtue of his office, to intending. builders and projectors of Works always provided this advice continue to be given disinterestedly, and that it be actuated only by the feeling of public spirit which should naturally animate the holder of
the office.
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With
regard.
to the members of
the Surveyor General's Staff I should. explain that it is my business jealously - to guard against these officers attending
to
private matters during office hours, But in trith
a nominal one
my vigilance is merely
for they bear such
excellent characters, and the relations
which exist between them and myr