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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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interest in looking after the building

I dont say he would take no interest, but if he was head of the Board, he would not be able to direct you, because I take it that the Medical work of the Board is far ahead of the building. You must remember that Medical men are very often composed like the rest of

humanity.

I know what you are driving at.

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No, you are wrong. I will tell you what is in my mind. 1304 3 There is the P. C. M. 0. ex officio. He is head of the sanitary pepartment, a ŋepartment which is orsated by the present ordinano», when it was amended. He is President of the Board. Communications come before him, and he can utilise these as he likes. He says "I will deal with this as P. C. K.O." or "I will deal with this as President". He has got a dual position thers, which I dont say is not satisfactory, but in face of the way things are run at home, whether a similar sort of thing would not do hers, in which we should have a

and

very high official - Colonial Secretary, if you like - as president, so as to keep it in the hands of the Government, with two Branches. It is the Public Health

- one the and Building Ordinance we are administering Medical Branch, the other dealing with Buildings, the M.Ö. H. to advise on the medical branch, and the Director of Publio Works on the building part, and having a P. C. M. 0. and a P. X. 0. - they are Daators of great experience, as Members. Whether it would not be advisable for the proper administration of the Ordinance, then when questions game up, we should have our technical advice, and we should be the jurora » laymen, brasuse the laymen are good enough in England, and I dont see why they should not be hare, taking the Sanitary Roard as constituted of son nombera, four Kirod officials, and two elected by the ratepayera, and nập

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