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⚫ one and a half million acres on March 31st, 1911, have now reached the enormous
total of two million acres.
6. I append a list of the increases asked for:-
(a) 2 Senior Staff Surveyors
House allowance
(b) 2 Junior Staff Surveyors
House allowance
(c) 1 Computer
House allowance
(d) 1 Draughtsman
House allowance
(e) Other charges in consequence of the increased staff
£
600
120
492
120
250
60
160
36 1,271
As it is possible to obtain the services of good men at £250 per annum from South Africa, I propose to fill the first-mentioned appointments by Junior Staff Surveyors at the lower salary. One of the Junior Staff Surveyor posts will be filled by the promotion of an Assistant Junior Staff Surveyor as the current year's Estimates The other vacancy I propose to fill provide for one assistant less than last year. from South Africa unless you wish to re-appoint Mr. Ramsey, who was formerly a draughtsman and was invalided last year, but who now reports that he is medically fit. The computer was appointed last year and paid out of savings (vide Sir Percy Girouard's despatch, No. 675, of 12th December, 1911*). We are pledged to keep him for three years and he is absolutely essential. The post of Draughtsman I pro- pose to fill locally by appointing a Mr. Rieban. This appointment is also a very necessary one.
7. With regard to the proposed increase of £1,297 under the Arbitration Board's vote, Sir Percy Girouard, in his covering despatch to the Estimates No. 109. confidential, of November 30th,† gave his reasons for asking for a duty allowance of £50 to the Deputy Chairman and for the appointment of an Arabic Clerk. There are now two Arbitration Boards at work instead of one as was the case last year, and since the amount allowed for the expenses of the Boards was insufficient in 1911-12 it is necessary to augment the vote and to make special provision for trans- port, &c.
8. I trust that with these particulars before you you will see your way to recom- mending to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury the increases asked for under the Coast Lands Settlement vote. I request that I may be informed by telegraph if I may fill the posts as proposed in paragraph 6 of this despatch.
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I have, &c.,
C. C. BOWRING,
Acting Governor.
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE ACTING GOVERNOR.
(Sent 6.5 p.m., June 14, 1912.) TELEGRAM.
Your despatch of 1 May, No: 316. Provision included in Estimates for Coast Land Settlement approved. Posts may be filled as proposed. With reference to your despatch of 9 May, No. 331,§ do you want Ramsay as junior or assistant? If latter, he would probably prefer to trust to chance for probationership elsewhere, unless fair prospect of early promotion if former, but if you agree he should take course of instruction before departure.-HARCOURT.
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No. 64.
MINUTES OF MEETING OF THE COLONIAL SURVEY COMMITTEE,
1ST AUGUST, 1912.
PRESENT:
Mr. READ,
Colonel CLOSE, and
Lieut.-Col. HEDLEY, with
Major JOHNSTON and Mr. BOTTOMLEY, Secretaries.
1.-Annual Report.
The proof of the annual report was considered in detail and generally approved, subject to the inclusion of additional remarks as to the state of the maps in the various Colonies and to the insertion of a section dealing with the Southern Nigeria report, which was expected to be received about the 10th of August. It was agreed that a plan illustrating the work to be undertaken in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast should accompany the report.
2.-Salaries and Allowances of Sappers of the Royal Engineers engaged on Survey Duty in Africa.
A question had been raised whether sappers employed in Southern Nigeria should be granted full pay during leave, instead of half pay as at present. After considering the arrangements in force in other countries the Committee decided to recommend that full pay leave should be granted, and it was understood that no objection to this arrangement was likely to be made by the Colonial Office.
Colonel Hedley drew attention to the allowances of various kinds given to non- commissioned officers and sappers of the Royal Engineers serving with Survey Departments, and in particular to the field allowance of 5s. a day given in Southern Nigeria, and he pointed out that no allowance of the kind was granted to those serving with Boundary Commissions. Colonel Close suggested that in the case of Boundary Commissions the cost of living was, on the whole, less than in the case of employment under Survey Departments, and mentioned that no complaints had been received from men who had served with Boundary Commissions, who were rather better off under the present scale of consolidated pay than under the old arrangement of double regimental and engineer pay plus allowances.
It was decided to enquire further as to the reasons for the 5s. a day field allow- ance in Southern Nigeria, but it was pointed out that no change in the Boundary Commission rates could be made without the approval of the Treasury.
3.-Trinidad.
Colonel Hedley mentioned that Mr. E. R. Smart, Engineer in charge of Surveys, had informed him in conversation that no topographical survey of Trinidad existed. It was agreed that enquiry on the point should be made, but Mr. Read pointed out that any expenditure necessary would have to be voted by the Colonial Legislature and could not be directed from home.
4.-British Honduras.
It was explained that the Colonial Office were still awaiting the Governor's views on the position arising from the disinclination of the Legislative Council to vote money for the reconnaissance survey during the current year.
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‡ No. 62.
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