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The Chairman:-
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Do I understand from you, Mr Osborne, that the
Building Authority and Sanitary Department had
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practically passed buildings, but became the certific-
ates were not promptly forwarded to you, you lost a
fortnight'☐ rent ?
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:-
TIGO 532.
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OUT PERMISSION OF REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH OF THE PUBLIC COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - HOT TO BE
RECORD OFFICE.
LONDON
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Mr Shelton Hooper)
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We lost rent. The original agreement with the tenants
was that they should take possession from the date of passing by the Government, and one certificate from one Department came in one day, but the certificate from
the Sanitary Board did not come in for some days
afterward, so that it was not completely passed by the Government, and that interval lost the Hotel Company
some hundreds of dollars.
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From your experience, as a past Member of the Sanitary
Board, having to do with buildings, and knowing the
mode of procedure that takes place, plans have to go to the Building Authority, and separate plans får drainage to the Sanitary Board, and certain plans with regard to the height of buildings have to go to the Sanitary Board for approval. Dont you think that if the Building Authority were done amy with altogether, or amalgamated with the Sanitary Board, and we had a sanitary and building beard, composed very much as it is now, with an xecutive Engineer and a M. 0. H. who should report to the Board, and the Board masters of the situation, that it wæld be a deal better than the present mode of procedure, and a better carrying out
of the ordinance.
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Yes, I think one Executive Engineer to do that work of both Departments, would be preferable. As a matter
of fact, various small jobs we do at the Kowloon wharves the work is very often done before we get permission to do it. I get the contrast, get the plans out, and I dont wait for the permission. If I did, I would wait