CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6] — Page 672

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Two Sanitary Overseers should be permanently attached to the Office. Their pay without extra cost to the Government ( as well as the $50 to Mr "Cooper) is provided for further on. In order to facilitate the transaction business, the new. office of Sanitary

Surveyor

of

and Inspector of Buildings should be allowed to communicate

direst with builders and depositors

write on

of plans. of deemed necessary he can so word

-word his corespondence asto

behalf of the Surveyor General.

why the Government Propector of Buildings should

But I see no

see no reason

not write in his own name,

7.

The time has now arrived

when the Government must deside asto the scale of fees to be charged to all such house-owners as are called on to build.

proper house drains. These fees should be charged quite as much,

the~

for plans and the specification of work

which

which will be prepared for them in

the Sanitary Surveyor

each

case

by

ao

for the cost of ou bergnent supervision of the work by the Sanitary Staff.

8.

is now a

In all towns of Europe, there

Sanitary, rate impored on

all house holder in addition to

to fees,

the latter being changed only for the preparation of the plans, but in Hongkong, notwithstanding that it is

ungeuthy

More

wanted than in Europe,

co ouch Savitary Rate exists, therefore the fees

charged

to be

will have to be

oufficiently large to resinburse the Government. the outlay of cupervision as well as that of making plans and specifications.

If His Excellency

however

Check elect to depart from the European

practice and

the

charges no fees for preparation of plans and specifications, I think it would be all the ncore

recessary.

to impose a Sanitary Rate

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