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KLOP 16 MAY 10:
Report on Land Survey work for year ending BIết
March 1910 (0.0. Circular of 5.5.09).
1.
Organisation. The Land Survey office, which includes
a staff of surveyors under the direction of an officer design-
ated the Principal Land Surveyor, forms a branch of the Public
Works Department. Its principal function in the past has been
the survey of leased areas, which were generally of small extent,
but the acquisition of some 350 square miles of new territory
in 1898 and extensive developments in the Colony generally havO
necessitated an extension of its operations.
The Principal Land Surveyor, in addition to supervising
the usual survey work necessary in a rapidly developing Colony,
is the executive officer for dealing with all matters relating
to Crown lands, the whole of which are under the charge of the
Director of Public Works. He submits reports on all applica-
tions for land, conducts all sales of areas to be let on long leases, prepares permits for temporary occupation of land and
licences for temporary piers, and attends to the preparation
of lease plans for lots of land, quarries, permanent piers, &c.,
and to the keeping of the numerous records.
The work performed by the surveyors is of a very varied
character as will be gathered from the particulars given later in this report. Each surveyor is responsible for co-ordinating
his own traverses and plotting them.
Two Land Bailiffs, whose time is wholly occupied in pre-
venting illegal squatting and encroachments upon Crown land,
which are very common offences among the Chinese population,
are attached to the office.
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