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would fall in with those of the adjoining ones in the best possible 
way. Further, each body would have to employ its own engineer, 
and that would entail greater expense, and possibly conflicting 
views. I therefore think that the great matters of water supply 
and sewerage should be managed for the whole metropolitan area 
(within certain limits) by a representative Board, wit 
elected upon it by all the municipalities concerned, certain members 
appointed by the Government, and among them several scientific 
persons, such as an engineer, a sanitary medical officer, and a 
scientific chemist. This Board should have power to levy taxes, 
to inspect premises, to carry out work itself, or see that the proper 
persons did it, and all those powers should be compulsory. d 
that by the Act, 43 Vict oria, No. 32, such a Board is author- 
ized to be created, and that its tee at poems are vested in the 
heads of the Harbours and ers Departments for water at 
sewerage respectively. But I think that seeing that within a yea 
the large portion of the great eastern sewer will be av ailable 
from the sea to the boundary of the city, it is time that some steps 
were taken to bring this important matter to a , practical issue. 
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and I do think that it will be a great calamity if the system is intro- 
duced in such an imperfect manner as to become a curse and nota 
blessing. The ignorance of sanitary matters among builders and 
workmen is so great that I feel that we are in reat dan anger of 
such a result coming about, as even in the city itself I think our 
eminent city engineer will ‘admit that he has moma in getting 
work of kind carried out with all the necessary ¢ 
onished some time back to hear him say that he could 
only ccteaeaam that defects already existing shoul tereds 
and I wonder that the power has not been obtained by the City 
Council to compel new sanitary arrangements to be carried out in 
such cases, Only la tely, i in one of the ee houses in the city, 
as a sufferer, there 
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of every dwelling from the main street sewer to the wate 
and should see that all traps and ventilators or ind, T donot fea 
is necessary to ensure such being the case. 
z trust, gentlemen, that these imperfect ‘remarks may have some 
effect in hastening our deliverance from the sen and nuisances “<4 
sketched out, and in bringing about a system of drainage wc 
will be most efficient in warding off disease, and preventing the 
pollution of our streets and premises. 
