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Secretary of the Board.

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Well then, you draw 'a distinction between Secretary of the Board and the Secretary of the Department ?

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Yes, because no Goverment Department has a Secretary, because the head is Secretary, and he is Head of the Department.

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You therefore think, holding the position you have, 156 40 that you would he perfectly justified in carrying on a correspondence with the Government, of which the Secretary is entirely in ignorance ?

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Yen.

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And that would not necessarily go before the Sanitary Board ?

PUBLIC RECONE" OFFICE

Reference:-

HC.O. 537

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RECORD OFFICE, LONDON OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH – NOT TO BE

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Who would decide whether that should go before the Sanitary Board, or not ?

The Government.

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Then it is quite possible for the President of the 15643 Sanitary Board, who is also Head of the Department, and also P. 0. M. 0. to carry on a very considerable correspondence with the Goverment on matters very distinctly relating to the work of the Sanitary Department, and consequently matters of which the Sanitary Board are supposed to have cégnisance, and yet nobody outside himself and the Goverment know anything about it ?

If it relates to the donduct of the Department, the work of the Sanitary Department, the P. C. M. 0. is the head of it.

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And therefore you think under the law he is entitled to car 1y on a correspondence dealing, an you understand the law, with matters relating to the Sanitary