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on the 4th paragraph of your circular letter which seems to
" indicate that :-
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(a) Hotel operators will not necessarily be asked to attend
any inquiry.
(b)
The inquiry on a matter of such great importance and public interest will be one to which the public will not have access.
My clients are appreciative of the fact that it is not "reasonably possible that such a form of inquiry should be held
" into the case of each and every one of the hundred hotels and
"boarding houses whose individual cases are to be considered and
"it was therefore with a view to facilitating your inquiry, yet
at the same time to make it the fairest and fullest investigation "possible, that the Association sought the advice of Counsel in
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"the 14th instant, whereat the line of inquiry to be respectfully "suggested to you and your Committee was fully and unanimously
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approved of by all member hotels of the Association.
The suggested line of investigation that the Association
has instructed me to respectfully seek your consideration and
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" (1) The holding of a form of judicial inquiry, with hotel
operators and any member of the public being given access
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thereto, into the individual status of two or three
representative hotels during which open judicial inquiry
representations are to be made and tested by examination :
by and for the Quartering Authority to afford him
the opportunity of justifying his case for control
at the rates previously fixed by him;
by and on behalf of the particular hotel and hotels
generally; and
by and on behalf of any member of the public who may
have an interest and is desirous of making representa-
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