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aton Hooper:-

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Werent you against the Claytor Fumigator because the 46 buildings could not be hermetically sealed ?

but

Not because they could not be herriet ically sealed,

because of many other things. The buildings could not be sufficiently sealed, and there are other reasons. helton Hooper:- (Addressing Chair) I think my question and the answer

should come out of the notes.

Chairman:-

phreys :-

Chairman:-

elton Hooper:-

hairman:-

I dont quite see how it should come out. If a mistake is made, the thing stands. if you once alter a question

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like that it is very vital, and a witness right come

along and say "I did not says 80 and sc. Personally, I dont think it makes the lightest difference, because the specific gravity is very

nearly the same in both.

If you once begin allowing Commissioners to take things out of our report

(Interrupting) if they say they never said it. My recollection in that it was sa-, and I am supported by the shorthand notes,

nt see how a

shorthand reporter can make a mistake between aulphate

aloxide and chlorine.

elton Hooper: Why it is so important now B

Chairman.-

helton Hooper.-

"hairman.*

because of the

numbering, and I say the question and anawer ought to

dome out.

We open such a very big door. This I think is a very trivial matter, as far an I can understand it, and if

you once adimit the principle that a whole question and answer comes out of our report, it ceases to

become a verbatim report.

The Chief Justice has done it in his judgment■ • I

out think Mr Petrie will bear me out in that.

This

othin.

do with the Chief Justice. I dont