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I am not asking you as to whether they are a guide but as to 134 4

whether they are null and void as Standing Orders ?

You may have Standing Oriers between the President and Staff

just the same as -

Oh yes,

The President may make Standing Orders, rules and

regulations but we are not alluding to these. I am speaking

of those circulated to the Boart ?

So far as the Board is concerned, they are null and void in

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Can you give us any reason why the President and Secretary 1347

should have gone to the trouble of drawing u; elaborate

Standing Orders for all senior Officers and servants of the

Sanitary Board and should have got then proposed to the

Sanitary Board and confirmed when it was known that a sew

Act had already come into force and that the Orders were,

according to your view, null and void within a week ?

I can give you no reason.

The matter was not discussed between you and the then Presi- 1348

-dent ?

I could not say that. It happened several years ago and

about whether it should go before the Board or not I cannot

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or not. I am talking about the drawing up of the Standing

Orders ?

So far as my memory serves me, I ! de to Dr Atkinson about

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