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& Askiman Crd
Not if it was against the Ordinance.
Mr Shelton wo 16321
A.
It may not be against the Odinsice ▼
Butch a case in NOT P
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airmant-
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No, but what I want to get at is, whether there was
transfer from the Board to the President solely ?
a
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That is 80.
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That is the way you understand the law ↑
16323
A.
Yes.
24 9.
And you think the Board had that power bafore the
Ordinance 23 of 1903 was passed, but since then they no
longer have that power ?
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A.
No longer.
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Q.
And that was done with your approval, -it was justified?
A.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:-
C.O. 537
36
RECORD OFFICE, LONDON OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE
I thought that the Board would be better as a Department.
I mean the whole of the Public Health Work of the
Colony would be better done by Sanitary Department,
than by a Board as at present constituted, or aa
constituted under 1 of 1903.
You held that opinion before 23 of 1903 was passed 9/6326
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A.
Yes,
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1901.
A.
28 Q.
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Adä ald you during the eight months that elapsed between!
the starting of 1 of 1903, and the passing of 23 of
1903,
were you confirmed in your opinion by the
result of the working of 1 of 1903, that it was still
advisable to transfar that power ↑
That impression still remained.
In consequence of your day to day knowledge of the 16328
working of 1 of 1903 for so many months ?
A.
Yes.
Mr Lau Chu Pak:-
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So it is entirely left to the President of the - Sanitary Board to decius which questions ought to be
brought before the Board, and which ought not
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