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Surveyor, for the purpose of - ascertaining whether all sanitary requirements had been complied with, and that
there was thus caused much
unnece
H.
cessary
waste of time.
While concurring
generally in the above views,
and
agreeing
with Mr. Price
as to the expediency of affording some substantial relief to the Surveyor-General in respect of the duties connected with private-building- inspection,
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I am unable to recommend fid the padotem of
"his proposal for complete. relief, as involved in the _ suggestion that the new Inspector of Buildings should
be authorised to communicate.
directly with the Colonial – dicretary.
5.
In view of the _
many public works which will require for years
to
come,
the almost exclusive attention
of the durveyor-General, I am satisfied that he should no
longer