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Clinton,
1901.
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920
would be ultra viras.
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And you think the Standing Orders is a matter really to
be controoled by the P. C. M. 0. ↑
A.
You.
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78 Q.
And so the Sanitary Board have nothing to do with it ↑
A.
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79
A.
A.
87 2.
Mr Shelton Hooper:-
A.
Not with the details of administration.
What do you understand as the duties of the Sanitary
Board ?
I think I explained that in my earlier evidenar.
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NO
"
I dont think so,
•
with regard particularly to the
estimates ?
I dont think they have any function in connection with
the estimates, They are consulted.
As a matter of fact, one year they were not.
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The year they were not submitted to the Sanitary Board,
1905/1906, was that by instructions of the Government
I could not say offhand. When I took over, I suppose I
was to blame if I didnt submit them to the Board.
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The Chairman:-
8%
Q.
A.
A.
849.
.
Do you know that every year previously they had been
aubmitted to the Board ?
I would not tell you. I consulted the Secretary, Mr
Harmer, at the time.
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Were you M. 0. H. in 1904, when the estimates for 1905
were considered ?
No, I was home on leavO.
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Well, it was either that year or the year before that.
Dr Atkinson was present. A Mosting was called. The
Sanitary Board were asked to pass the estimates, and I
objected. I said I was not prepared to pass estimates
involving expenditure of a qua ter of a million dollars
on five minutes notice, and I considered we should
have a week to consider them, and Dr Atkinson very
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