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fr Clarke
Chairman:-
I think there are a great many casesof people rather going
anything to escape up before the Magistrate to pay a fine - trouble. They don't know they have an appeal or in the past their appeal was never granted them. If you are not prepared to answer that question I will ask the Secretary or the Medical Officer of Health to provide an answer.
Fong Wa Chun:- Don't you think that such appeals should be brought before 488.
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the Board ?
A:
If it is an appeal to the Board, Ies
Q:
When it is a letter addressed to the Secretary ?
A:-
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:-
C.O. 537
35 RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH NOT TO BE
That does not necessarily mean an appeal to the Board. There are so many letters it would be impossible to lay everyone
of them before the Board.
r Lau Chu Pak :- And do you mean to say that all those appeals should be
addressed to the individual members of the Board ?
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A: No. It must definitely say against what they are appealing
because it is a matter of plain English.
te Chairman
K-
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I will remind you of a case where the Registrar General said there was a great deal of difference between business English and the English of an appeal. An appeal was made to the Sanitary Board in connection with a steam laundry and it
was only brought before the notice of the Board because one of the members asked for the papers having been informed
privately" what was going on.
A
fr Shelton Booper :- I am going to take you back. You have been Medical Officer,
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of Realth for some time and, although we are dealing with
wich these Ordinances, I am to carry you back to a previous one
Ordinance 24 of 1887, which was our principle sanitary
Ordinance, and Ordinance 18 of 1901, later on, Section 10,
and Ordinance 1 of 1908 which is our present ons Section 14
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