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Reference:-

GO. 537.

The Chairman:-

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Mr Shelton Rooper:-

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Sanitary Board to make alterations, as regards window ar - »

and so on ?

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No, only petty things, like gratings and sinks, and concrete surfaces, and, if I may mention it in connection with those petty repairs, putting in now gratings and mending concrete surfaces and so on, Beveral instances have occurred with me where we have

been served with notices to repair certain defects. We have repaired them some days afterwards, and I have got another notice to say that nothing has been done. I have repaired them again. I have got another notice to say that nothing has been done, and it was so peculiar that I took the trouble to make enquiries, and I found that the time between when the floor was repaired, or the gratings put in, as the case might be, and when the Inspector got along to see it, that it had been done, and the tenant had smashed it all open again.

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Then what cure can you suggest for that, Mr Osborne ↑ If a floor is so constantly broken, it simply means that it is perpetual repairing that must be kept on.

Perpetual repairing. Well, I really dont know how you

can get over that difficulty.

Now, supposing your floor is properly concreted,

it is broken and you repair it,

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now it is ridiculous

to say that you have to have your floor repaired every

three or four days?

In connection with one house, I was told to reconcrete certain portions of the floor. It was a fishshop, where

they had a lot of water slopping on the floor. I had it

repaired with good conorsts, and after the work was done

the shop people went on with their business, and water

was dripping on to the floor, and washed away the new conorste,

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the new cement.

Do you think it was quite fair to the floor to allow)804%

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