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could have retained exclusive control over

the

pressure for

fire.

cases of emergency

like

At present, the numberless house-pipes everywhere bleeding the mains make it | impossible to restore to the latter their former pressure. The chief arteries are in fact in such a state of depletion, that in order to enable the water to travel.

any

distance, it becomes nece

City

necessary

to cut off

and to concentrate the

the rest of the

whole

of the force upon

one

particular

district at a time. Each district in its

tumn being assisted in this

during

Supplies

Inawer once-

the 24 hours. Permits for house-

overe

stopped in 1873 too late to good, as enough of them had

de any good,

already been issued to work the present__ mischief, but as there is so much rebuilding and restoration of house property

Victoria just.

going

all over

now I think

the evil might be some what lessened in of time by declining to regrant-

Course

permits to these new

structures this

would be tantamount to calling back. former permits issued to the old ones. The Attorney General remarks that in all equity parties suffering from the fire should be restored as far as possible to their former position, which opinion would naturally meet on general grounds

with

everybody's

Concurrence

but on

other hand it should also be weighed

whether on the ground of public experi

the

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