CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6] — Page 440

an

of your Executive Council and that there is practically unanimous opinion that the

opinion

Government should be held

directly, responsible for the

Your own view is to the same

Sanitation

of the colony.

Teffect and

recommend.

you

board

that "the sanitary

"as at present constituted "be abolished and that the

"head

677

the medical department

of this colony who should be "Styled Principal civil medical "Officer be made responsible "not only for the work of

"

that department but also

work of

" for the Sanitary "Colony other than that

the

nature which

an engineering should be placed under the Director of Public Works".

_ 3. The first I am not prepared

to controvert the

opinion

Whic737

has been thus given after long

attention to the subject and com.

•sultation with representative residents

in the

colony.

Sanitation is

So all important in Houghing

that it seems only, right that

★ it should be under the direct

Control of

the colonial government

and that there should be no

Arcitat responsibility

Should not be divided

(sho

in the

matter; but Iemsider it to be desirable that before the

board counting

Sanitary

as it does a papunten clement

definitely

lished, there

"should be some resolution or

expression of opinion to that effect on the past of the Legislative Council, and I would ask you to invite them to favour mo

me with a formal