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a large native community constitutes the bulk of the popula-
-tion, it would be of doubtful expediency for very extensive
powers of control to be vested in the representatives of a
single class property owners - of whom the Council would
chiefly if not entirely consist. (f). The existence of such
Municipal Councillors having control over a large number if not
the large majority of the questions throughout the Colony at
present decided by the Legislative Council would necessarily
curtail the powers of the latter body and render the position of
its Unofficial Members a difficult and undesirable one. (g). The
technical staff engaged by the Municipal Council
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Engineering,
Medical and Audit (the complete control of the former being
the point most insisted upon by the Commission) must inevitably
entail friction with corresponding Departments under Government
and duplicate work, and a corporate body created primarily to
reform Sanitary procedure would make heavy demands which the
Revenue could not meet. Their employes would presumably be a
body outside the Civil Service (see paragraph
engaged and
dismissed by the Council at will. The control of the Governor
and of the Secretary of State would be difficult of enforce-
-ment.
7.
It would occupy too great a space
were I to examine this project in detail and since it was
emphatically