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of professional advice to private individuals (and which being totally unconnected _____ with Government, duties might under the category of private practice) is entirely due the improved standard of

our-

street architecture so

apparent of late

years and which is gradually metamorphosing

the

more

appearance of Victoria. Other far s important but invisible reforms in..

domestic sanitation also

directly

due to

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the private advice of the Department, accompany these architectural improvements all tending to the eventual increased health and welfare of the community. With these facts before us it is clear it would be irrational and impolitic prohibit the Surveyor General if the

to

pleases to do it, from giving professional advice by virtue of his office, to intending. builders and projectors of Works always provided this advice continue to be given disinterestedly, and that it be actuated only by the feeling of public spirit which should naturally animate the holder of

the office.

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With

regard.

to the members of

the Surveyor General's Staff I should. explain that it is my business jealously - to guard against these officers attending

to

private matters during office hours, But in trith

a nominal one

my vigilance is merely

for they bear such

excellent characters, and the relations

which exist between them and myr