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to be consulted with regard to estimates with regard to

future legislation ?

Estimates have nothing to do with future legislation.

I thought it was legislation, because it had to be 15.644

passed in the Legislative Council?

Naturally.

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Do you think it advisable, as a matter of policy, that

the official and Unofficial Kembers of the Sanitary

Foard should be consulted about the estimates ?

I dont see any objection to it at all. I think it

desirable.

Then what has made you alter your opinion, this last 15b9b

18 months, when you thought it was not desirable ?

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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I dont know that I thought it was not desirable.

But the fact that you withheld them sn your om bat,

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you must have thought it was undesirable. That is a

logical conclusion.

I didnt say that at all. I thought I was acting in

sagordance with every other Department,

the new Ordinance, 23 of 1903.

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Therefore you thought your duty of laying the catimates

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Did it strike you that Dr Atkinson did not take that 15699

same view as you did the previous year when he was

President, after the passing of Ordinance 23 of 1903,

and that he did lay them before the Board ?

Did he. I am not sure.

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Yes, that is the only time they hava been withheld from

the Board.

I could not tell you without looking up all the back

correspondence.

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