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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:-
HGO. 537
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OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH NOT TO BE
RECORD OFFICE,
LONDON
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I cannot very well at present. The last few years I have not had much to do with the working of the Ordinance, my work has been in other directions. But I looked up some of our books, and it seemed to me that the time ranged between a week and a month.
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You were in practice in England before you came here?
Yes.
What was about the time there, after it was sent in to'7445 the Local Authority for approval ?
It was a fixed time, a week. I might explain
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I will go on to that later. On the assumption that the Building Authority was amalgamated with the Sanitary
Board,
do you think that the appointment of an Executive Engineer and a M. 0. H. aɛ advisers to the new Board, would be an improvement in the general working of the Ordinance ?
Yes, I think that would be necessary. That is one of
the reasons why the amalgamation should be better than
the present system.
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Before you came to Hongkong, in what town or part of England were you ↑
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In Leeds.
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Can you tell us about the population of Leeds, roughly At the present time, it is about 500,000, and at that time it was something like 400,000.
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What is the system there, when an Architect sends in plans for approval to the Authority?
Every alternate Friday plans are sent in up to six o'clock in the evening; they must be in by six o'clock on the Friday. Then the Inspector of Buildings looks through them, and on Monday morning a olurk goes from your office, and the plans that require amendment are laid out on a long table, and on each set of plans is a slip of paper. On this slip of paper is noted the
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