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Chavisam

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612 The Alahar

they will offend

the matter out,

msone, and they are there to thrash

to say whether certain advice is wort

following.

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As I understand i` you have the P. C. M. 0. a

P. 0. M. 0. and ex officio President of the Board.

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He

is practically head of the Department, and consequently it is open to him to give any orders on instructions in reference to the genitary work of the Colony, without

any reference to the Board ?

A.

Yes, I think that is the position now.

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Since when ?

A.

Since the Amending Ordinance in 1903.

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Do you think that that was the position of the Board, 13607

before that Ordinance was amended, at the end of 1903 ↑

A.

No.

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08 Q.

It was not the position, when the original Ordinance of 1903 wae passed ?

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

HC.O. 537

A.

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I consider not.

Then you think that the Amending Ordinance, in the 13609

autumn of 1903, entirely changed the position, and it

put the P. C. K. O. as despot of the Department of the Department and ignored the Board entirely ?

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A.

YOB.

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10 Q.

And now you think he is as much head of the Department, and just as free from the control of the Board, as the

Director of Public Works in head of his Department, and

has no Board to consider ?

A.

Yes,

that is his position.

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In consequence of the Amending Ordinance ?

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A.

Yes.

Fung Wa Chun:-

In that ESO,

do you consider yourself only entitled to

be adviser to the Board ?

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"A.

In my present position, I am simply an officer of the Sanitary Department ander the instructione of the

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