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surely you cannot maintain that it is unreasonable for

the goverment to say "make good the floor". The law says you must have an impervious floor. If through gross mistreatment of the floor, the tenant smashes the floor to such an extent that it ceases to be impervious before the twelve months are up, surely the Government is quite right to call upon you to make it good. I dont think you have a complaint against the Goverment,

or the Ordinance ?

The sole cause of complaint is against the tenant, and it is impossible to go against the tenant.

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The landlore has the usual remedy against the tenant ?

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If you come to consider the other bearing of the case,

it will the bearing of property owning in the Colony, become, unless some relief is given to people investing

and I in property, almost impossible to build houses, should say some protection should be given to the

landlord.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

GO. 537

37 RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH-

COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE

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Then your complaint is not so much against the 18094 Ordinance, as against the tenant ?

I dont know how you can get at the tenant.

I think that is hardly within our province as a 18095~ Commission, to deal with. This is a new idea, and wo

can hardly suggest to the Government any remedy as between a tenant and landlord.

I think it might come within our prévince in deal ing

the with this, that if that defect is found today,

owner is liable, but I think to meet it, it should be,

if that is clearly the fault of the tenant, that the

- the Sanitary Board, or Government authorities, another Board, may take proceedings against the tenant direct, knowing that it will make them more

careful.

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That is what I mean, the tenant should be made to

suffer.