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Very well, what do you suggest the difficulties are ?

A

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How will the Government be communicated with ?

Through the Secretary, by order of the Board.

The Chairmat]:=

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Xr Shelton Hooper:-

And if a very important question comes up, a special

meeting could be called. A letter could be circulated

as they are between the Members of the Board of a big

Public Company.

Assuming there is such a Board as I have sketched out 650

to you in skeleton, there should be standing Committees, what is equivalent in England to the Streets Committee,

things to be referred to them before they go to the

Board ?

A.

Yes, but have the people out here time to devote to

plans.

A.

S-29.

A.

In this way. The Streets Committee meets once a week, 16057

The Executive Engineer lays before them applications

for 20 houses. They are all in order, and they are passed. One or two are not in order in certain details,

and they have power to grant exemption, or to refer to

the Board. That is a matter of detail working. In that

way, dont you think that it is not chly feasible, but

to approach it with an unbiassed mind,

I dont think my mind is prejudiced on this point at all.

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As a matter of fact, what I gathered from you in

conversation some years ago, I rather thought you would

like to be under the Board. I would like to know your

views, and your objections.

It is so difficult out here to get busy business men to

give the time which I know that they give at home to

this class of work. Men of leisure, a osrtain number of

them, take up Municipal work at home, but here there

ar no men of leisure, or when there are, they are

wise enough to leave the Cony.

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