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consideration and report. No report was however, made by this Committee, although they met several times, and discussed the subject at length. Great diversity of opinion existed amongst the members with regard to certain clauses which the Surveyor-General considered of the highest importance, but which presented great difficulties on account of their interfering with vested rights.
The main question at issue was how far the Government were justified in removing grave sanitary abuses which had been in existence for many years, and which were a danger to the community, without compensation to the parties who would sustain pecuniary loss by such removal.
Finding that the matter was making no progress, I brought the Draft Bill before the Executive Council in the early part of the year, and it