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What is your full name ?
Arthur Turner.
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And your profession ?
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Architect and Surveyor.
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And you are a partner in the firm of Palmer and Turner
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How long have you been in practice in Hongkong?
Over 23 years.
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And before that, you were in practice in England ?
Yes, for about 8 years.
Do you think the amalgamation of Building Authority and
Sanitary Board would be conducive to the better
administration of the Ordinance ?
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Yes.
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Would buildings he examined and passed quicker !
They should be.
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What is about the average time hare between sending in 17562]
plans for approval of the Fuilding Authority and the
Sanitary Board, and the receipt of parait to proceed?
Small plans requiring no particular consideration,
about two weeks. Larger, from two to five months.
That is your experience as regards the time for so
doing in England ↑
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My experience is 23 years ago; then it was about a week.
Probably shorter now.
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of an Executive Engineer and M. 0. H. as advisers to
the Sanitary Board would be an improvement to the
general administration of the Ordinance ?
Yes, provided they are both independent of any
Government Department.
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I take 1 that you mean that you would not consider the
amalgamation such as I have suggested, if it took