CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908 — Page 170

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The Chief Resident Engineer writes that "he has never been

"asked to make a statement with regard to the bridges or to give

"an opinion as to the cracks being serious or no* but we presumUGI

that he will be called upon for a report for submission to us.

We should have thought that in view of all the above cir-

cumstances it would have been better that the Chief Resident Engin

eer should have been included as a member of the Committee and

at any rate that all orders to Contraetors and Sub-Contractors

should have passed through him. This seems not only to be wise

in itself but in accordance with the spirit and letter of the

instructions under which the Chief Resident Engineer was appointed

The way in which the Committee is reported to have set to work

seems to run the risk of impairing Mr.Eves' position vis-à-vis of

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the Contractors and Sub-Contractors, whether European or Chinese

and it is to be hoped that some steps will be taken to put this

right.

We do not agree with Mr.Eves that the appointment of an

independent Comittee by His Excellency the Governor need necessar-

ily be held that the Government had put a slight on the Chief

Resident Engineer though perhaps he may not unnaturally have

thought so and he states that he has heard outside opinions to

that effect. His Excellency may have wished for an independent

opinion previously to obtaining that of Mr.Eves and though he

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