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Mr Shelton Hooper:-

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and lime generally.

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I would like to say this, that if you come bafora and upon examination with regard to certain technical matters in connection with the Public Health and Buildings Ordinanas, if there is anything we have not asked you, and you want to make a statement about it for the improvement and better administration of the Ordinance, even if it relates to mortar or anything alas, any papers you send in will be considered by the

Commission.

At present wo are carrying on an exhaustive series of experiments with regard to lime mortar, and we are doing that imder the instructions of one of the local harristers, and I believe it is in connection with some case that may he before one of the Courts, so that I dont feel at liberty to say anything without consulting him. At present, I have only seen the barrister,

there

is no solicitor in charge of the case,

The Chairman:-

Have you completed these experiments ?

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No, and they wont be completed before a fortnight or three weeks. In the meantime, I will ask him if there is

any objection to my svidence going in to the Commission. Our report will probably he another two or three months

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before it is laid before the Governor, and nothing is made public until it is written and sent in to His

Excellency.

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This case is sub judice. I dont know when it will come

on, or whether it will come on, it all depends.

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I should ha very glad to have it.

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We could not give you any of that information, unless

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we get summoned, but I could give you a general

leature un lime mortar that would last an hour.

Mr Shelton Hooper:- But put it this way. Your clients may wish it, and if h

they wish it taken up by the Commission, we shall be