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Be go?

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Not so long as they have the officers.

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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GO. 537

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Can you form any idea as to the cause ? Have you ever

had any reason given you as an excuse for having kept

you so long ↑

Nothing beyond the excuse that it has to be passed from one Department to another, and sometimes when you go to the Sanitary Board, they say the Public Works

have it.

18150

Now, is that not another reason for the malgamation of these Departmente, in which all your correspondence

and everything would be conducted through the

Secretary of the Board, and the certificate should be

signed by the Secretary, by Order of the Board, or a

Select Committee of the Board.

Yes.

1867

And that would simplify things, and enable property

to be occupied considerably sooner than it is today ?

Yes.

187520

It comes to this, Mr Ram, that if a property omer is developing property, he has to wait a month or perhaps

more in getting his plans passed, and he has to wait a

month or perhaps more before it is passed as fit for

occupation?

Yes, he allows a couple of months, perhaps.

So therefore, if it takes 13 months to lay out a big (815-3

property, it is 14 or 15 months before you get. your

certificate ↑

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Yes.

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18754

And it increases the cost of labour, and increases the

cost of rental the tenant has to pay ultimately ↑

Yes.

There is one other point in the same connection. In 13755 all your contracts, I think there is a clause that if

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