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in 1906, that the lines on which resumptions should be carried out are to some extent already indicated in Mr. O. Chadwick and Professor W. J. Simpson's Report of the 14th May, 1902,
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and that various reports that are received from the Sanitary Board contain specific recommendations for minor resumptions,
I do not at present support the proposal for the establishment of a Trust embodied in the report submitted in Sir Henry A. Blake's Despatch No. 485 of the 23rd October, 1903, nor that for an Advisory Board recommended by Mr. May's No. 150 dated the 9th April, 1904. I would leave the tendering of advice as to the areas or buildings to be resumed and the utilization of the resumed areas to the members of the Government responsible for its Sanitary measures and for the utilization to the best advantage of Crown Lands.
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For the double purpose of assisting to secure continuity of policy and of collecting data which would govern any large scheme that may be undertaken in the future I propose that there should be continuous records of all the resumptions undertaken. These records would consist of a special annual report prepared by the Director of Public Works and printed as a Sessional Paper which would show on a general map the position of the areas that have been resumed or are in process of resumption and on more detailed plans each scheme of resumption and of relaying out the resumed area and the extent to which each scheme had been carried out by the end of the year dealt with in the report. It would show also the proportions of each resumed area originally and ultimately devoted to streets, lanes, and open spaces, and to Government