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Statement by Mr. P. Jacks.
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© OCT 13
I have not worked regularly on Saturday afternoons, Sundays,
and holidays, because I have found it necessary to get away
occasionally for some exercise after a week's work of 9 or 10 hours a day at my desk. This sedentary life all through the hot weather has been very trying, it has been practically impossible for me to get any daily exercise as I usually start work at about 8.30 a.m. and seldom finish before 7 or 7.30 p.m. I have not included the time occupied with work I have taken home with me as I have kept no record of it. I do not think I could put in much
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more overtime even were I working under the conditions in C.0. Rule 76 (G.0. 109) without running a great risk of a break down,
as it is I find it a very great atrain.
The performance of the duties of two men of necessity means longer hours even for an officer who is familiar with those duties and the extra time put in by such an officer representa con- -siderably more work than can be accomplished by an Officer from another Department and not possessing an intimate knowledge of the additional duties he is called upon to perform.
I never fet off with less than 1 hours a day overtime and more often it runs to 3 or 3 extra hours a day so that I get very little time to call my own until after darkness sets in, this is very strenuous work in this climate and I have another five months
of it to get throug.
The work has been unusually heavy as owing to the boom in landed property in this Colony during the recent disturbances in China a great deal of business has passed through this Office with the result that the revenue for the first eight months has exceed- -ed the estimated revenue for the whole year and I have good reason to believe that the remaining months of the year will show no falling off in the matter of work.
9th. September, 1913.
(Sd.) Philip Jacks,
Land Officer.