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It by remarks calculated to remove the false impression that had been created.
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Mr. Hewett is not a man, as far as I am aware, who takes a practical interest in the actual work of the Sanitary Staff. But he is extremely anxious to see the re-organization recommended in the Report carried into effect. I have already sent Your Lordship a copy of Sir Matthew Nathan's minute on the subject of the Administrative Head of the Department. I now enclose copy of my minute with which I submitted to him the Director of Public Works' Memorandum of the 18th of April and of Sir Matthew Nathan's minutes thereon.
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I am at a loss to understand how Mr. Hewett gained the impression that Sir Matthew Nathan was favourably disposed towards the re-organization scheme, and I feel sure that there must be misunderstanding in the matter. That scheme I regard as unpractical. It would, moreover, inevitably involve additional expense as the establishment of new Sub-departments always does, and it would lead only in one direction - agitation for a Municipality, an expensive luxury thoroughly unsuited to the