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but I would point out that the risk of my professional reputation suffering from the recommendations of such a committee is very great. The possibility of such a committee being appointed to enquire into matters of which they have no experience will tie my hands in future
in my decisions on various technical points, and my mini cannot help being biased in favour of taking no chances no matter what the ex-
penses incurred may be rather than run the risk of having a committee
to sit on any trivial mistake, fault or accident, which may happen
in the work.
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On any large work the Chief Engineer is boual to take certain
risks in the interests of economy, and it is only natural that
sometimes failures should occur. As a rule these failures can be
enquire into by Engineers who practise in that particular branch
of the profession, but in a small colony like this such is not
possible.
10. This opens the question of your Inspection of the work and I
would ask if it is your intention to inspect the work within the
next year or eighteen months. The point which to my mind is the
most serious is the question of lining the Beacon Hill Tunnel.
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I am taking the risk of not lining this Tunnel in the centre
at present, but, in case of a fall, His Excellency may call for a
committee to enquire into the matter. It would be impossible to
obtain the services of a suitable committee with a knowledge of
Tunnel work in the Colony.
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The matter is not pressing now but in view of the fact that
the headings will meet on May 1909 and that the Tunnel may be fully
widenel on December, 1309, I would like the question considered as to
whethered I am justified under the circumstances in running this risk,
considering that I have everything to lose and nothing to gain no
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