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(g) The greatly extended requirements of the three Services have necessarily resulted in the need for much additional land to be made available to them.
Due to the difficulties of recruiting suitable officers, augmentation of the staff to meet the much increased volume of work resulting from these causes has proceeded very slowly, and some inconvenience to the public through delay has therefore been unavoidable.
Cessation of the Land Office and Marriage Registry as a separate department.
17. The Land Office and Marriage Registry as from 1st April 1949 became incorporated in the new Registrar General's Department, established under the provisions of the Registrar General's (Establishment) Ordinance, 1949. This is therefore the last occasion on which the report of the Land Office and Marriage Registry will appear as a separate Report.