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Registry.
83. The major subjects of this Branch are Buildings and Lands, and at present there is a Buildings and Lands Registry manned by three clerks. This registry is also performing other minor clerical duties but this decentralization is considered to be wasteful in man-power.
84. It is recommended that the Buildings and Lands Registry be merged with the Open Registry.
85. A wider clerical service is required by this Branch and provision for this is proposed in Chapter XII.
86. Summary of the recommendations made in this Chapter:
(1) That this Branch should be known as the "Trade and Development"
Branch. (81)
(2) The Buildings and Lands Registry should be merged with the Open
Registry. (84)
(3) Provision of a wider clerical service. (85)
CHAPTER VI.
COMMUNICATIONS AND SOCIAL SERVICES BRANCH
Designation and allocation of subjects.
87. As in the case of the previous Branch discussed, there is at present no Branch called by this name.
88. It is recommended that the subjects should be grouped as shown on the Dis- tribution of Business List A (Appendix B), and the appropriate group should be known as the Communications and Social Services Branch.
89. Previous remarks on the necessity for a wider clerical service also apply to this Branch. For the service proposed see Chapter XII.
Annual Reports.
90. These reports describe the conditions in the Colony and Government activities during the previous calendar year, and is usually issued early in March in time for reference by H.E. the Governor in his speech on the Budget. 825 unbound copies of the Annual Report are sent each year to His Majesty's Stationery Office, London. The reasons for the copies being unbound may be two-fold:
(1) Reduces cost of shipment.
(2) H.M.S.O. prefer to use a standard binding for all Colonial and other
Annual Reports.
91. Whether the saving in the cost of shipment is balanced by the cost of additional handling by the book-binders is unknown, but it is considered that the delay now occurring before copies are available for sale in the United Kingdom should be avoided. It is recommended that consideration should be given as to whether this Government should bind all copies of the reports in the manner prescribed and as sold by His Majesty's Stationery Office, or whether representation should be made for His Majesty's Stationery Office to accept for re-sale, copies of the report bound in a manner chosen by this Government. In either case bound copies would be shipped to London and the present delay before offering the copies for re-sale would be avoided.