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The Chairman:-

("anding witness notice referred to) Is that the 21664

notice ?

Witness:-

Yes.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

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"In several cases it came to my knowledge that Inspect- "or Lamble rec«ived presents from the owners and "tenants, where notices were served, not to interfere "with the illegalities.

It This would seam to substantiate the reason why the "small notices were not complied with, also Inspector's "reason for calling in the small notice book "counterfoils, so as to destroy any trace of evidence "that might be brought up that would be detrimental to "him; for instance, if the X. 0. H. during his tour of "inspection were to find illegalities which would cause "him to call for an explanation why such existed, I "would be unable to produce the counterfoils of amall "notices served, Inspector Lamble Having already "called them in to shield himself.

"1. Small notices wero served by me to remove illegal "latrines on the 2nd floors of Nos 2, 4, and 5 Wa Lana, "on the 6th day of February 1904.

H On revisiting these premises later, I found the "illegal latrines still existing, so wrote a memo to

"Inspector Lamble requesting to know if legal notices "had been served to remove these latrines. Inspector "Lamble replied "No. Please serve small notices again". "I pressed the tenants why the latrine had not been "removed and they told me they had settled it with the "Senior Inspector. I served small notices again, but "found a month later that nothing had been done, so "called the attention of the M. 0. H. to the state of "things; even then the latrines were not removed till "Bone weeks afterwards.

(Handing witnesa meno `referred to) Now, has that memo

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