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Recommendations.

NEW SCHEME,—Continued.

375. As part of the new Scheme we venture to lay before your Excellency, it appears to us desirable that the finances of the Sanitary and Building Department be placed in the hands of the Sanitary Board.

377. Our suggestion is that the Sanitary Board should prepare the yearly estimates for the Department.

These will as hitherto be submitted to the Governor who will accept or modify the estimates as may appear expedient and incorporate them in his Annual Budget.

378. The Budget having been passed by the Legislative Council, the money voted for the Department will then be at the disposal of the Sanitary Board, who will be responsible for its proper expenditure in accordance with the terms of the vote, in exactly the same manner that the head of one of the large spending Departments, the Public Works Department, for example, is reponsible to Your Excellency for a similar vote.

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F. H. M.

12th June, 1907.