CROWN LANDS AND SURVEY OFFICE
Principal Government Land Agent: D.H.A. MOORE, J.P., F.R.I.C.S. P.A. WARD, A.R.I.C.S. (Acting)
7.01
year,
GENERAL
The market was not particularly active at the beginning of the year, but improvement was marked as the year progressed. The system of selling Crown land regularly by Auction and Tender in accordance with a planned programme continued, and of the 30 lots offered for sale only one was withdrawn for want of a purchaser. Generally, auction sales were well attended, and bidding, particularly towards the end of the year, was quite keen. In the latter quarter of 1975 prices paid at auction were markedly higher than those obtained in the first part of the year.
7.02
Much senior staff time is taken up with attendance at meetings and service on committees. The Weekly Lands Meeting with representatives of the Environment Branch of the Secretariat and the Registrar General's Department, the weekly P.W.D. Conference and Crown Land Conference and the fortnightly Building Conference are the principal standing meetings through which policy is formulated and cases are processed and where particular case problems are dealt with. The main inter-departmental committees on which the Crown Lands & Survey Office has senior representation are
Committee Representative(s) Industrial Land Sub-Committee of the Land Development Planning Committee Principal Government Land Agent Port Works Liaison Committee Principal Government Land Agent Building Appeal Tribunal Principal Government Land Agent Hawkers Select Committee of the Urban Council Government Land Agent (V) Secretariat Quarters Progress Committee Chief Estate Surveyor (U.E.) Land and Engineering Survey Board Government Land Surveyor (Chairman) Military Lands Meeting Chief Estate Surveyor (U.E.) Building Construction & Civil Engineering Sub-Committee of the Metrication Committee Senior Land Surveyor69