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He would have to report to the Board what he is doing,

exactly as the Chairman of the Municipal Council at

Shanghai. He would be able to say, you may do so and

so, or *I think the business is so important, I must

consult the Council". I take it such cases would not

very often arise.

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And my idea of the Streets Committes, that would be the

one that would meet once a week. Three or four men on

this Committee would do the business in oumera, not a

public Meeting, and discuss the things there.

If you are going to accept the principle that most of

the work will be done in Committee, or in camera, that

will lighten our labours considerably. There are

popular Members on the Board now, and you have power to

appoint any number of Committees you like, but it is

not done.

I think there is a tendency for a Government official (b158

to rather do it in a Government way, than a popular way,

which I dont alwayɛ admit is the better. That is what I

mean,

Unofficial, apart from the Goverment. I dont think you

want to suggest hole and corner methods as specially

applicable to the fovernment.

To get over the difficulty of working in camera, you 16059

could always do it this way, as we do in Shanghai. At the

Municipal Council the minutes of the sub Committees are

read, and having done that, extracts of the minutes' are

published. The Minutes are read at the Nesting of the

full Board, at which all the Meibera are present.

You evade that principle as to whether something which is adopted by the Committee, shall be adopted by the

Council or not.

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