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I attach a report from Mr. Douglas on the work
done by Messrs. Corner and Plascott while working with him. I report as follows:-
Kr. Corner, I find has very little knowledge of the
theodolite and it is evident that he has had little, if any, experience in survey work requiring traverses which must be closed before they can be plotted. In the first survey he undertook for me he ignored the vertical arc entirely with lamentable results and it was only after many attempts that he was able to show a close, a bad one, in a five line traverse He has probably been used to revision work where everything has been done with a chain or tape and where special accuracy has not been required. A slight knowledge of mathematics is essential to every surveyor but Mr. Comer appears to have a very superficial knowledge indeed. I cannot depend upon him if god and accurate work is required.
His plotting is quite good and as far as that gpes entirely satisfactory. If he could be
employed entirely on revision work for the
Ordnance Survey, say in Kowloon where the
country is more or less level he might possibly
be useful in time, but the same can be said of
Chinese Student Surveyors, One expects men from
home to be qualified to carry out any ordinary
work entrusted to them.
Mr. Plascott, is a more careful Surveyor and although very
slow is apparently accurate. His mathematical
knowledge is weak but should improve and his
plotting is good. He appears to be a man
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