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10. The whole topographical staff is to work in one 1:250,000 sheet area, and is not to be scattered over several areas. One area is to be completed before another is commenced.
The scale of work is to be 1:125,000.
As soon as the first 1:125,000 sheet is completed it should be forwarded without delay to the Colonial Office. No elaborate drawing is required, as the sheets will be re-drawn at home.
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3. I propose to omit from publication the portion of paragraph 9 marked in margin; as it institutes a somewhat invidious comparison between British and foreign Colonial survey work, which might possibly wound the susceptibilities of our French and German neighbours.
I have, &c.,
JOHN RODGER,
Governor.
ساتيا
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O.885
18 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
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SIR,
No. 116.
SOUTHERN NIGERIA.
MR. E. P. COTTON to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received March 19, 1908.)
[Copy to Governor, 28 March, 1908. Confidential. L.F.].
[Acknowledged 26 March, 1908.]
38, Woburn Place, Russell Square, W.C., 19 March, 1908. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, No. 5066/1908,* dated 18th March, 1908, also of instructions, 5066, 12th February, 1908.
2. I beg to state that I am quite prepared to carry out the work in terms of these two documents.
3. In order that I may purchase the additional instruments necessary for the carrying out of this work, I trust that the amount asked for in my letter of 12th instant may meet with your approval at an early date.
4. With regard to paragraph 2, I trust that in my correspondence (both with the Colonial Office and with the Government of Southern Nigeria) nothing may be thought to savour of discourtesy. I have frequently had to choose between what might displease and what might mislead, and if I have appeared to have adopted the former, it has been with the conscientious desire of avoiding the latter.
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MY LORD,
No. 117.
GOLD COAST.
I have, &c.,
E. P. COTTON.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 1 May, 1908.)
[Answered by No. 133.]
Government House, Accra, 11 April, 1908. In accordance with the request contained in your Lordship's despatch, No. 112, of the 12th March last, I have the honour to transmit, herewith, the Annual Report on the Survey Department, made up to the 31st March. Portions of the 1907 Report are included in the reports already transmitted to your Lord- ship with my despatches, No. 174, No. 293, and No. 309, of the 6th May,§ the 3rd July, and the 19th July, 1907, respectively; and I have pleasure in again expressing my high appreciation of the work carried out by the Survey Department in this Colony
2. In paragraph 86 of his report, I notice that Major Guggisberg states that "the Secretary of State has issued instructions as to the spelling of certain well- known names," but I have not yet received your Lordship's reply to my despatch, No. 278, of the 27th June last; ** and, as I consider the greater part of paragraph 8 to be altogether too controversial, I propose, when publishing this report, to omit those portions which I have marked with red ink in the margin.tt
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Enclosure in No. 117.
A REPORT on the Work of the Gold Coast Survey for 1907 by Major
F. G. GUGGISBERG, R.E., Director of Surveys, Gold Coast Colony.
SYNOPSIS OF REPORT.
1. Nature of Season's Work.
2. Field Party's Work.
THE STAFF.
3. Remarks on the Field Party's Work.
4. Topographical Work.
5. System of Topographical Work adopted in the Gold Coast.
6. Remarks on Native Survey Parties for Topographical Work.
7. Mapping Work.
8.
Orthography.
9. The Map of Northern Ashanti.
10. Special Work.
11. Work in England, 1907.
12. Concluding Remarks.
Diagram A.-State of Map Production.
THE STAFF, GOLD COAST SURVEY.
Major F. G. Guggisberg, R.E., Director.
Captain C. B. O. Symons, R.E.
Lance-Corporal C. V. Mathieson, R.E., Surveyor. Second Corporal R. N. Kilby, R.E.,
Second Corporal G. Strickland, R.E.,
Assistant Surveyors.
Second Corporal J. W. Walsh, R.E., Draughtsman.
J. B. Esuman-Gwira, First-Class Assistant Surveyor (Native).
E. J. Smith,
T. H. Vaughan,
Second-Class Assistant Surveyors (Native).
R. Josiah, Second-Class Assistant Draughtsman (Native).
NATURE OF SEASON'S WORK.
1. The season's work was mainly divisible into three branches :-
(A) Cadastral Work.-The demarcation of nine mining concessions, including about 60 miles of tie lines, and of one township.
(B) Topographical Work. Filling in with compass and steel tape certain areas lying between traverse lines chiefly in the Accra, Winneba, Kwahu, and Eastern Akim, and Saltpond districts.
The survey of certain lines in Northern Ashanti to form a more or less rigid skeleton on which to base the map of those regions compiled from the sketches of officers and Commissioners.
(c) Compilation and production of the Colony map.
FIELD PARTY'S WORK.
2. Captain Symons, R.E., was in charge of the field party, which consisted
of three non-commissioned officers, Royal Engineers; three interpreters, capable
of making tertiary compass traverses; and three gangs, each of 24 carriers.
Besides the concessions, Captain Symons completed 13 miles of road from Huni Valley Station to Corbacorl Concession, including bridges.
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