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As we have already stated the Lieutenant-Governor would not have approved of the plan in question.

About 300 feet of the intended sewer has been already constructed in which one of the openings set out on the plan has been left, at a distance of about 150 feet from the shore. In the first instance the passage is not exactly what is required and in the next the opening is not wide enough to admit of a boat with oars passing through it, while at high water mark there is scarcely 26 inches of space between the floor of the sewer and the water. The opening therefore is wholly insufficient to permit of the passage of the smallest sampans and might as well have been omitted altogether.

There cannot be any question as to what the public requirements are. It is absolutely necessary that there should be ready access at all hours of the day by house boats to all parts of the harbour, not only for the purpose of proceeding to and fro...

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19 503 13. As we have already stated the Lieutenant-Governor would not have approved of the plan in question. About 300 feet of the intended sewer has been already constructed in which one of the openings set out on the plan has been left, at a distance of about 150 feet from the shore. In the first instance the passage is not exactly what is required and in the next the opening is not wide enough to admit of a boat with oars passing through it, while at high water mark there is scarcely 26 inches of space between the floor of the sewer and the water. The opening therefore is wholly insufficient to permit of the passage of the smallest sampans and might as well have been omitted altogether. There cannot be any question as to what the public requirements are. It is absolutely necessary that there should be ready access at all hours of the day by house boats to all parts of the harbour, not only for the purpose of proceeding to and fro...
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