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the conclusion that your system is not only the simplest but 

 the most efficacious I have yet met with. This opinion 

 is, in so far as the Council Chamber is concerned, also shared 

 by some friends of mine who are members of the Council, 

 and who pronounce the application of your process simply 

 faultless." 



As samples of the opinion of the press we select two 

 short extracts from the Builder and Building News, as 

 they are representative papers and recognised authorities on 

 such subjects : 



" We have had an opportunity of being present in the 

 Chamber during a meeting of the Common Council, and 

 being aware, from personal experience, of the bad state of 

 the atmosphere which used to prevail on Court days, we are 

 in a position to say that a marked improvement has been 

 effected so decided a change for the better, in fact, that we 

 can quite endorse the favourable opinion of it which has 

 been given by Sir John Monckton, the Town Clerk, in a 

 letter to Mr. Which cord. "Builder, Nov. 18th, 1882. 



"We have witnessed the operation of the system, and 

 can now speak from personal experience of the merits of the 

 principle which Mr. Boyle has applied to this and other public 

 buildings in London and the provinces." Building News, 

 Nov. 3rd, 1882. 



Several attempts had been made to ventilate the 



