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emphatically repudiated in the very able speeches by the two
prominent spokesmen of the Unofficial Members, Mr. E. Osborne
and Mr. M. Stewart, there remains no necessity for doing so.
I have alluded to its main features rather with the object of
exhibiting the contrast to them which the policy which has
recommended itself to me presents.
8.
The Sanitary Board already
possesses an Unofficial majority, and has large statutory
powers under the Ordinance. In lieu of creating a separate
Engineering Department my view has been that the Building
Authority should be detached from the control of the Sanitary
Board and be identified with the Public Works Department of
the Colony, thus avoiding overlapping of duties, and by some
reorganization of method curtailing the delays in passing
Architects' plans &c., which constituted one of the chief
grievances put forward by the Commission. A quicker form of
appeal from the decisions of the Building Authority also appear-
-ed to be greatly needed. This has been provided for in the New
Ordinance.
9.
The Commission rightly complained
that the Principal Civil Medical Officer could not properly
discharge the functions of Administrative Head of the Depart-
-ment and President of the Board in conjunction with his other
extensive
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