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Comitter
Enclosure
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Public Works Department.
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Reet 12 JUN 14
21. i. We append the report which the Director of Public
Works made to us in reply to our Circular asking for a statement of the duties performed by the European Members of the Staff of the
Department.
We decided to ask Colonel Dumbleton, who with the permission of the Military Authorities had kindly consented to join the Committee for the purpose, to make an independent investi- -gation into the working of the Department with a view to ascer- -taining (1) whether any reduction in the Engineering Staff, on the basis of the Expenditure on Public Works Extraordinary and Public Works Recurrent estimated for 1909 was possible; (2) whether any improvement in the organization and efficiency of the Survey Staff could be suggested; (3) whether the Staff of Over- -seers is adequate or otherwise; and (4) whether the large annual expenditure on maintenance of Buildings and Roads cannot be
reduced.
We append the report which Colonel Dumbleton has been good enough to furnish to us from which it appears that in his opinion no reduction in the personnel of the Department is possible and that the annual expenditure on maintenance of buildings and roads cannot be reduced.
ii. We questioned Mr. Chatham and Mr. Fisher on this report especially with the view of ascertaining whether a reduction in the Engineering Staff might not be rendered possible by the increase of the Staff of draughtsmen and tracers. Mr. Chatham expressed the opinion that no such economy could be made because the major portion of the duties to be performed was of too res- -ponsible a nature to be entrusted to assistants of the kind indicated and further because the Engineering Staff was already at the minimum necessary for the supervision of the work devolving upon the Department.
Mr. Fisher expressed the same opinion, and added