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To say the least, their achievements and costing would be
more easily assessible," he said.
The bottleneck in the Secretariat, caused by the tremendous
amount of work, he went on, would go from bad to worse if the principle
of delegation was not applied to a greater extent.
He felt certain that the granting of financial independence
to the Urban Council was a step in the right direction, and the same
applied to the newly constituted Housing Department.
"I sincerely believe that the department will receive more
sympathetic support from taxpayers in general, and its tenants in
particular, if everyone has a better knowledge of the actual cost of
building and maintaining each individual estate," he said.
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