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Excellency to investigate the statement- that the Sanitary

Board had numerous reports and complaints in reference to

sanitary matters. In the interests of the public this alle-

gation should in the opinion of the Chamber, be thoroughly

siftea, and information be afforded to the public as to

what action was taken by the Board in each case brought to

its notice.

With regard to the drainage of the City, there is

and

a widespread belief- but the Chamber has no means of veri-

draw fying it- that the scheme as an Up by Mr. Osbert Chadwick

endorsed by Mr. J. M. Price, the late Surveyor General,

been carried out on approved by the Government has not

the original lines, and that the separate system has been more generally applied than was intended; upon this point

it is desirable that the public should be thoroughly en-

lightenea. In December 1890 the Unofficial Members of the

Legislative Council, in a Memorandum regarding the Esti-

males for Public Works Extraordinary for 1891, sounded a 20

note of warning on this subject, to the following effect:-

"We do not feel satisfied that the enormous expendi-

"ture of $282,500, already voted, on the sewage of

"Victoria was a desirable one to ineur, but as the

"work has been commenced and has therefore to be gone

"on with, we do not disapprove of the decision of Gove

"ment to sanction and carry out Mr. Osbert Chadwick's

"proposals and plans, but we are now of opinion that

"it would have been better when such decision was

*proved of by the Council that it should have been ar-

*rived at in such a manner as would have guarded a-

"gainst any possibility of any changes in and depar-

ap-