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could have retained exclusive control over
the
pressure for
fire.
cases of emergency
like
At present, the numberless house-pipes everywhere bleeding the mains make it | impossible to restore to the latter their former pressure. The chief arteries are in fact in such a state of depletion, that in order to enable the water to travel.
any
distance, it becomes nece
City
necessary
to cut off
and to concentrate the
the rest of the
whole
of the force upon
one
particular
district at a time. Each district in its
tumn being assisted in this
during
Supplies
Inawer once-
the 24 hours. Permits for house-
overe
stopped in 1873 too late to good, as enough of them had
de any good,
already been issued to work the present__ mischief, but as there is so much rebuilding and restoration of house property
Victoria just.
going
all over
now I think
the evil might be some what lessened in of time by declining to regrant-
Course
permits to these new
structures this
would be tantamount to calling back. former permits issued to the old ones. The Attorney General remarks that in all equity parties suffering from the fire should be restored as far as possible to their former position, which opinion would naturally meet on general grounds
with
everybody's
Concurrence
but on
other hand it should also be weighed
whether on the ground of public experi
the
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