CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7] — Page 476

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remain, what structural changes shall be carried out and what property resumed, destroyed, or rebuilt?

In approaching this question it must be remembered that we shall be dealing with property worth from $100,000 to £150,000 per acre, and I do not feel competent to deal with so large a question without first obtaining the advice of an eminent ...

The Sanitary Board, the letter of the Chamber of Commerce shows that a considerable section of the Community consider the drainage to be in a dangerous condition.

The Sanitary Board point out that houses are too high and call for an Ordinance restricting houses to once and a half the height of the width of the street measured from kerb stone to kerb stone, and have on general principles that I cannot gainsay recommended that six private streets, at the ends of which are houses erected over archways, shall be entirely opened by the removal of the latter which will, the Acting Director of Public Works estimates, cost one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars.

If one or the other assumption of the cause of insanitary conditions be correct it will cost a very large ...

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7 +4 471 remain, what structural changes shall be carried out and what property resumed, destroyed, or rebuilt? In approaching this question it must be remembered that we shall be dealing with property worth from $100,000 to £150,000 per acre, and I do not feel competent to deal with so large a question without first obtaining the advice of an eminent ... The Sanitary Board, the letter of the Chamber of Commerce shows that a considerable section of the Community consider the drainage to be in a dangerous condition. The Sanitary Board point out that houses are too high and call for an Ordinance restricting houses to once and a half the height of the width of the street measured from kerb stone to kerb stone, and have on general principles that I cannot gainsay recommended that six private streets, at the ends of which are houses erected over archways, shall be entirely opened by the removal of the latter which will, the Acting Director of Public Works estimates, cost one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars. If one or the other assumption of the cause of insanitary conditions be correct it will cost a very large ...

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7 +4 471 remain, what structural changes shall be carried out and what property resumed, destroyed, or rebuilt? In approaching this question it must be remembered that we shall be dealing with property worth from $100,000 to £150,000 per acre, and I do not feel competent to deal with so large a question without first obtaining the advice of an eminent The Sanitariau, the letter of the Chamber of Commerce shows that a considerable section of the Community consider the drainage to be in a dangerous condition. The Sanitary Board-point out that houses are too high and call for an Ordinance restricting houses to once and a half the height of the width of the street measured from kerb stane to kerb store, and have on general principles that I cannot gainsay recommended that six private streets,at the ends of which are houses erected over archways, shall be entirely opened by the removal of the latter which will, the Acting Director of Public Works estimates, cost one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars. If one or the other assumption of the cause of insanitary conditions be correct it will cost a very large

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remain, what structural changes shall be carried out

and what property resumed, destroyed, or rebuilt?

In approaching this question it must be

remembered that we shall be dealing with property

worth from $100,000 to £150,000 per acre, and

do not feel competent to deal with so large a question

without first obtaining the advice of an eminent

The

Sanitariau, the letter of the Chamber of Commerce

shows that a considerable section of the Community

consider the drainage to be in a dangerous condition.

The Sanitary Board-point out that houses are too high

and call for an Ordinance restricting houses to once

and a half the height of the width of the street

measured from kerb stane to kerb store, and have on

general principles that I cannot gainsay recommended

that six private streets,at the ends of which are

houses erected over archways, shall be entirely opened

by the removal of the latter which will, the Acting

Director of Public Works estimates, cost one hundred

and seventeen thousand dollars.

If one or the other assumption of the cause of

insanitary conditions be correct it will cost a very

large

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