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provision as may be necessary can be made in the Estimate
for 1934.
3. It has been necessary in the past for Surveyors engaged by this Government to undergo a period of training under the Board of Trade before taking up their duties in the Colony and a considerable period has consequently elapsed before their services became available.
course would be likely to cause some embarrassment since the additional staff will be most urgently required at
This
the beginning of the period of adjustment to the new conditions, while the engagement of untrained officers will be uneconomical if their services are only required for
In the circumstances I should be
a limited period.
glad if an enquiry might be addressed to the Board of Trade as to the possibility of obtaining from that Depart- ment trained Surveyors to the number considered necessary on loan for two or three years; or alternatively that an endeavour should be made to recruit officers already trained who would enter the service on two or three
year agreements.
4.
I consider it probable that, in addition to any temporary assistance which may be required an immediate increase of the present establishment by one Ship and one Engineer Surveyor will be found necessary and I should be glad if steps might be taken to engage these in consult- ation with Commander Hole and the Board of Trade.
candidates selected should, if possible, be men who possess the requisite training, and in view of the
uncertainty of the present position they should, if possible, be engaged on agreement not exceeding three years.
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