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Government at a later date as directed in the despatch under

reference.

3.

I have now the honour to do so,

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and I regret that so long an interval has meantime elapsed. By

last mail I submitted to Your Lordship the Amending Public

Health and Buildings Ordinance which has just passed the

legislature. The enclosures to my covering despatch included a

copy of the local "Hansard" report of the debates in the

Council in which I have stated my views in reference to the

recommendations of the Commission fairly fully, and with those

speeches, and the other enclosures to that despatch before Your

Lordship it will not be necessary I think for me to trouble you

with any very elaborate examination of the Commissioners'

Report. In October last I prepared a lengthy Memorandum deal-

-ing seriatim with every clause of the Report, and recording my

views and decisions thereon, but unless Your Lordship should

express a desire for a copy of it I do not think it necessary to

trouble you now with so lengthy a document.

4.

The Report of the Commission was

a somewhat loosely worded one, its recommendations were in many

cases far from precise. The schemes it propounded were ill- -digested and I found it not an easy task to reduce them to a

concrete form.

attach a précis prepared by the Colonial

Secretary