CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6] — Page 32

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reading of the section. There

prohibition

is ro

O-

the

against afficing vertical down fipes on the exterior face of house walls, but only

exterior face of house walls that front a public thoroughfare, for experience

teaches that when

the se

ea

places

the pipes soon get broken by the passing traffic, and then

sewage is left to trickle down the face of the wall on to the public foot pach.

Objection to section 49

Speaking from

a

experience of fifteen years I affirm that

Chieese

builder will construct

axc

-efficient house drain unless

narrowly

watched

by

a

teuropean foreman And even them the work is not always

what

be

Ch. 55.

lic.

what it should be. It is

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therefore absolutely necessary that the house dranes should:

the Panitary

be built.

by

Board or by persons approved

by

for

the Board, and

CLO

there

a fixed schedule of price all kinds of drain work the estimate of cont

and avo

will in each case.

be

Communicated to the house -

owner, before the work is

begun.

Isee no reason to

apprehend anruf

any rick of

Corruption

..

Objections to Sections 52 and 53.

These sections are

based on

the Imperial Statule naved in the margin,

and entail

no hardship for it is clear

that

ar Z

main Rewers

cannot be taken past

every

man's door,

house drains.

rest

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