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provide an allowance for those who act for the substantive holders of appointments. I would therefore place the salary of the Native Assistant Instructor at £150-£10-£200, and the Native Assistant Instructor £120-£6-£150, £6 being the usual increment for this salary. I would grant Native Instructors bicycle allowances of £12 a year; they do not require the more expensive rickshaw allowance. (7) Regarding the positions for which the cadets from the school are to be
eligible, I recommend the adoption of Major Guggisberg's proposals. (8) As regards calculating the initial cost, I think that Mr. Cotton is correct in urging that rent should be charged; the question, however, is a small one.
The building I hope to be able to allocate for the use of the school is that now occupied by the Director of Surveys. I should value this building at £100 a year. I hope by the end of this year to provide office accommodation for the Survey Department in the new Public Offices.
(9) I leave entirely to the decision of the Colonial Survey Committee the
determination of the kinds of certificates to be granted.
3. When Major Guggisberg's report is printed I request that I may be supplied with 30 copies.
I have, &c.,
W. EGERTON,
Governor.
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5. Staff-I agree with Major Guggisberg that a second European Instructor is required, to replace the Chief Instructor when the latter is on leave; and I am also inclined to agree with him in thinking that, for the sake of uniformity and pending the appointment of a Surveyor-General for West Africa, it would be provisionally advisable to place this school under the Colonial Survey Committee, rather than under the local Director of Surveys.
6. Payment of or by Cadets. I see that Mr. Cotton, in paragraph 45 of Enclosure (2), suggests that cadets should make annually increasing payments for their tuition, commencing with £15 for the first year; but this suggestion is scarcely consistent with paragraph 14 of the same enclosure, in which it is stated that the Lagos survey pupils receive an annually increasing salary, commencing with £12 for the first year.
As far as this Colony is concerned, at all events, I concur with Major Guggis- berg (paragraphs 12 and 25 of Enclosure (1) and paragraph 7 of Enclosure (3)) and Captain Lees (paragraph 4 of Enclosure (4)) in thinking it advisable that cadets should either receive small salaries, or some allowance for maintenance; unless, of course, they are provided with food at Government expense.
I have, &c.,
JOHN RODGER,
Governor.
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(No. 136.) MY LORD,
No. 41.
GOLD COAST.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received May 3, 1907.)
[Answered by No. 94.]
Government House, Accra, April 12, 1907. WITH reference to Your Lordship's despatch, No. 494, of the 27th November last, on the subject of establishing a Native Survey School in West Africa, I have. the honour to transmit copies of the following correspondence:-
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(1) Proposals by Major Guggisberg, Director of Surveys, Gold Coast. (2) Proposals by Mr. Cotton, Director of Surveys, Southern Nigeria.
(3) Letter from Major Guggisberg, commenting on the above, dated the
22nd February, 1907.
(4) Minute by Captain Lees, Director of Public Works, of whose Department the Gold Coast Surveys will form a branch in 1906, dated the 3rd April, 1907.
2. The establishment of a School of this description is, in my opinion, unques- tionably desirable; and I will confine my remarks to a few of the points discussed in the attached correspondence.
3. Site for School. The question whether the site should be at Accra or Lagos is dealt with in paragraph 6 of Enclosure (1) and paragraph 25 of Enclosure (2). The hilly ground surrounding Accra, where the cantonments are situated, is very suitable for practical out-door work; and the fact that the cadets' quarters would be at a considerable distance (two miles) from the town is a distinct advantage, in favour of the Accra site, from a disciplinary point of view.
On the other hand, although the exactitude of Mr. Cotton's description might be questioned, when he writes that "Lagos is not only the Liverpool of West Africa, it is also the Athens," it is doubtless the case that Lagos has reached a higher stage of material civilisation than Accra.
4. Cost-I am prepared, on behalf of this Colony, to accept the proposals in paragraph 8 (a) and (c) of Enclosure (1); but I do not consider that the Gold Coast should bind itself to continue this arrangement for a period of more than three or, at most, five years. If, moreover, the School is established at Lagos, as I gather from local natives that parents may be averse to sending their sons there, it must be clearly understood that this Colony will be entitled to the services, if required, of such number of cadets as may be proportionate to its contribution; irrespective of the place where the lads were born.
• No. 131 in African No. 777.
Enclosure 1 in No. 41.
PROPOSALS FOR A NATIVE SURVEY SCHOOL IN WEST AFRICA, BY
MAJOR F. G. GUGGISBERG, R.E.
NATIVE SURVEY SCHOOL Synopsis of Proposals.
1. Object of School and general outline of proposals.
2. Government appointments for which successful cadets will be eligible.
3. Civil employment.
4. Agreements.
5. Probation and educational requirements.
6.
Locality of School.
7. Management of School.
8. Expenses.
9.
(a) Initial cost.
(b) Annual cost.
(c) Division of annual cost on revenue basis.
(d) Division on basis of cadets employed.
(e) Division on basis of annual requirements.
() Method of division recommended.
(g) Share of expenses by other Colonies. Instructional staff.
10. (a) Chief Instructor.
11.
(b) Instructor.
(c) Assistant Instructors.
Establishment of cadets. Length of course of instruction.
12. Pay of cadets.
13. Examination.
14. Character of cadets.
15. Practical training.
16. Vacations, &c.
17.
Draughtsmen.
18. 19. Survey certificates.
20. Qualifications for Government posts.
21. Course of instruction.
22.
Organisation during first three years.
23. Approximate estimates.
24. Discussion of the estimates.
25.
Justification of the School.
1. The object of the School is to create a body of trained native surveyors who Ol ject of will in time replace the majority of European surveyors employed in the British school and West African Survey Departments; to provide Assistant Surveyors for the Public general
outline of proposals.
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