CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11] — Page 441

Colony but indirectly the removal of Quarantine

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Restrictions and the general improvement of the

commerce of the Colony.

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2. The Constitution of the Trust Board,

There is no Department in the Colony yet constituted

under which the improvements so gently required can be carried out. Your Committee after very careful consideration consider that the Board should be in

the nature of a Government representative Council of

2 members of which the Colonial Secretary should be

Chaienan, and the other members all acquainted with the work the Board will be required to carry out. Thei

Board will need en expert Sanitary Engineer and orobably other experts on its Staff in regard to

which no difficulty is anticipated.

3.

The Endowment of the Trust,

the amount supisted as en annual payment to the

Trust is not very great amounting in ten years to

only $5,000,000 but it is considered that it is suff-

iolent to make a obert oog the worst districts of

the City of Victorie. If the results are as anticio-

abel and a macited improvement in the health of the

districts sets in eg the result, and the improvel

streets and builtings become appreciated arrangementa can easily ba male for increasing the amount to

enable the Boer to work more rapidly.

4.

Termination of the Trust.

The work of the Trust will terminate when the older

portions of the City of Victoria have been pullei

down, laid out with proper streets and rebuilt with Sanitary dwellings. The payment of the endowment to

the Trust will then cease and all property of the

Trust revert to the Government which will then reap

the benefit of the increased Crown Rents created on

tha