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4. A table has been prepared, and is attached, showing the manner in which the staff was employed during the year. From this it will be seen that while the authorised staff is nominally 18, in reality (exclusive of the Chief and Assistant Chief Surveyor, who were at headquarters for practically the entire period, and therefore added little or nothing to actual output of field work) only 11 were available for field work, and of these two were available for three months each only, and being new to the work could not be expected to contribute much. In addition, the total amount of leave included in this period is 802 days (two years two months and eleven days) which further reduces the staff by three for the period of nine months under review, making it eight, and this is again further reduced by the time 336 days (11 months) during which two of the surveyors were employed on other than general survey work. The total time devoted to survey work, inclusive of Sundays and occasional holidays, was 1,501 days.
5. Frequent attempts have in the past been made to organise surveys on the party system, but hitherto without success. So long as the Department is called upon to furnish surveyors for odd jobs (and under the existing state of affairs this is unavoidable) so long will returns continue to be unsatisfactory. The remedy for this lies in the appointment of special surveyors for public works jobs, e.g., laying out townships and roads. It is of little importance whether these surveyors are under the control of the Survey Department or of the Public Works, so long as there The principal are surveyors available without disorganising field parties. arguments in favour of their being under the Survey Department are: (1) That data necessary for connecting up such road and other surveys as they may be called upon to make to the general survey by tying on to points fixed by Survey Department would be more readily available. (2) That the systems of survey which they would adopt would be uniform with those in use by the Survey Department. (3) That all plans, &c., prepared by them of townships, &c., would be under one roof and would be required by the Land, i.e., the Survey Department. (4) That if by any chance (a very remote contingency) work for them on public works ran short plenty This of work would at all times be available for them on general survey work. matter was dealt with by Major Hills, R.E., C.M.G., and I would very strongly urge the immediate appointment of two surveyors for public works as recommended by him. It should be very clearly understood that under none but the most excep- tional circumstances should the existing staff of the Survey Department be asked to carry out such surveys.
The Deputy Commissioner,
Entebbe.
RAYMOND C. ALLEN, Chief Surveyor and Land Officer.
PERIOD 1st August, 1906, to 30TH APRIL, 1907.
SURVEYORS HOW OCCUPIED.
Name.
Leave (from Entebbe
to
Time on
Entebbe). (Days.)
General Survey.
Time on other Surveys.
R. C. Allen
146
W. V. Morris
-
H. S. Toppin
160
113
E. Richardson
91
182
E. G. Fenning
273
L. R. Fraser
273
H. E. Winckler
119
154
L. M. Seth-Smith...
-
273
Carried forward
160
869
609
Remarks.
At headquarters.
Do.
Name.
Leave (from Entebbe
115
to
Time on General
Time on other
Remarks.
Entebbe). (Daya.)
Survey.
Surveys.
Brought forward
160
869
609
207
66
207
66
-
194
79
91
A. Richardson
J. McGregor
H. Boazman
J. P. Tolland
*J. T. Stiles
†V. F. Mayne
†A. H. Gee
†R. Gonlston
†C. Wilmot
...
1
880
91
Wahid Ali Khan ...
34
802
239
1,501
609
Arrived Entebbe on first appointment
December 17, 1906.
Left for field February 6, 1907.
Arrived Entebbe on first appointment
January 7, 1907.
Left for field February 6, 1907.
Arrived Entebbe on first appointment
April 1, 1907.
Left for field May 1, 1907.
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• Under instruction at headquarters for balance of time spent in Protectorate, and therefore not taken into nocount as contributing nothing to output.
+ Under instruction at headquarters and contributed nothing to output.
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MY LORD,
No. 67.
SOUTHERN NIGERIA.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(No. 359.)
(Received July 20, 1907.)
Government House, Lagos, Southern Nigeria, June 28, 1907.
I HAVE the honour to transmit an annual report on the Lands and Survey Department for 1906 prepared by the Director of Surveys.
2. The report is not an illuminating one, as the cost of the work done is not stated while the absence of particulars as to work actually performed robs the report of interest.
3. As regards paragraph 11 I would mention that the cost of expropriation includes cost of buildings on the land as well as of the land itself.
I have, &c.,
J. J. THORBURN,
Acting Governor.
Enclosure in No. 67.
ANNUAL REPORT ON THE LANDS AND SURVEY DEPARTMENT FOR 1908.
The work of this Department has been chiefly topographic and geodetic, com- Class of prised mainly of accurate theodolite traverses and refined telegraphic exchanges, carried out,
for the purpose of establishing absolute and independent checks on the theodolite work, where "closes were not possible.
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work
2. The theodolite work now amounts to about fifteen hundred (1,500) miles, Amount of and it has been checked by fourteen (14) telegraphic exchanges for longitude. theodolite
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