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I have on occasions seen people talking to all the Inspectors at one and the
same time. Of course this is subversive of all order, system, and regularity in work,
and also necessarily leads to the waste of time.

To accommodate this staff only two methods are feasible:—
1. To rent or buy a building away from the Vestry, or
2. To arrange that the present large office shall be re-aringed to
accommodate—
10 Inspectors.
6 Clerks.
1 Messenger.
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and to allot a committee-room to the Inspectors during certain hours of the day.
In the morning till 11 o'clock, and the in afternoon from 4.30 to 5.30, To give the
present office used by the Superintendent and myself to the former, and to give me
the Burial Board Office for a private office.
There are serious objections to the first proposal. At the present time, and in
the future perhaps it will be even more so, there is a constant inter-communication
between the Surveyor's Department and the Public Health Department relative to
drainage matters, and consequently great inconvenience would be caused to the
Departments if the officials of one had to travel from one building to another,
possibly from one part of the district to another, to communicate with each other, more
especially when plans, books, &c., would have to be carried.
On days when the Public Health Committee would meet the carriage of books
alone would cause great inconvenience, unless it met in the same building in which
1he staff performed its work; while if the Committee did so meet, great inconvenience
would arise from time to time when it became necessary to consult the
Vestry records.
Pending 1hen the building of a Town Hall or Municipal Buildings, which I may
say, is an urgent matter now, for the Works and Finance Departments are also very
straightened for room, I advise the adoption of the second plan as being the only
temporary way out of a very serious difficulty. I can thoroughly appreciate the desire