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A summary or the inspections carried out during the year is
appended, together with a list of the repairs carried out as a result.
The past year has been no less difficult than the War years in
securing much needed repairs to house and other property, owing to the
critical shortage of building materials and labour, but chiefly building
materials, priority for which goes to the reaction of much needed new
houses.
Consequently, it has only been possible to enforce the execution
of the most urgent repairs, still leaving in abeyance much needed work
necessary to preserve the fabric.
It is to be honed that such work will he possible in the not too
distant future, otherwise much cottage property will rapidly
deteriorate, causing the housing problem to become much more acute.
I am,
Yours obediently,
CHARLES WILLIAM HILL, M.S.I.A.
Chief Sanitary and Housing Inspector,
Meet, Food and Petroleum Inspector.