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Enclosure 2 in No. 6.

CAPE COLONY.

IV.-Imperial Cable Communication.

1. In the opinion of this Conference the provision of alternative routes of cable communication is desirable; but in deciding upon such routes, the question of the strategic advantage should receive the fullest consideration.

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2. That landing licences should not operate for a longer period than 20 years, and that when subsidies are agreed to be paid they should be arranged on the "standard revenue principle-i.e., half the receipts after a fixed gross revenue has been earned to be utilised for the extinguishment of the subsidy, and, by agreement, for the reduction of rates.

No. XIV.

Surveyors.

(NOTE-Paper circulated on this subject will be found on pp. 587-590 of [Ca. 3524].)

PRIVILEGES GIVEN BY SELF-GOVERNING COLONIES TO SURVEYORS FROM OTHER COLONIES.

Extracted from Professional Handbook compiled by Walter Paton, M.A., and issued by the Emigrants' Information Office.

AUSTRALIA.

New South Wales.

Surveyors of reciprocating Australian Colonies may receive certificates of competency without examination.

Queensland.

Persons who are licensed as surveyors in any other of the Australasian States or New Zealand may be licensed to practise in Queensland.

South Australia.

The Board of Examiners for Surveyors grants certificates of competency in surveying (without examination) to any person who shall satisfy the Board that he holds a licence or certificate entitling him to practise as a surveyor in any part of the British Empire, or in the United States of America.

Tasmania.

Surveyors of other reciprocating Australasian States are certified without examination.

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Western Australia.

No one may practise as a land surveyor in Western Australia without a licence from the "Land Surveyors' Licensing Board," which may be granted by the Board on full examination, or on partial examination, or without examination, according to the evidence produced as to qualifications. The

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Board may issue a licence to any person to whom it has issued a certificate of competency, or who holds a certificate of competency issued by any reciprocating Board of Examiners for land surveyors in Australasia after September 1895, and who is still entitled to practise as a laud surveyor in the country where he obtained his certificate.

NEW ZEALAND.

Surveyors of other Australasian States may be admitted to practise without examination.

CANADA.

A qualified surveyor of any part of His Majesty's Dominions other than the Provinces of Canada must have had two years' practice as a surveyor or as a pupil to a surveyor, and must, in addition, serve for a year in Canada before he can be appointed a Dominion land or topographical surveyor, and must pass the prescribed examination. Surveyors of any province in Canada may become Dominion land surveyors without further service or examination other than with respect to the system of survey of Dominion lands, if the Board of Examiners.considers them to be sufficiently qualified.

British Columbia.

Any person admitted to practise as a land surveyor for the Dominion, for any province of Canada, or for any of His Majesty's Dominions, may enter for an examination and, if qualified, practise as a land surveyor in British Columbia.

Manitoba.

Any one who has been duly qualified to practise as a land surveyor in any part of His Majesty's Dominions other than Manitoba, and has served an equivalent apprenticeship there and produces his certificates, need not serve one in Manitoba, and shall be admitted to practise on passing an examination on the special laws governing surveys in Manitoba.

Ontario.

Any one who has been practising as a surveyor elsewhere in His Majesty's Dominions where the qualifications are similar to those required in Ontario, and produces his diplomas or certificates, need not serve as an apprentice, or only for a certain limited time, before undergoing the final examination, or such portions of it as the Board thinks necessary.

Quebec.

Certain reciprocal privileges are granted to licensed surveyors of other provinces in Canada.

CAPE AND TRANSVAAL.

Apparently no privileges are given to qualified surveyors from elsewhere.

NATAL.

Persons who hold diplomas from any recognised examining body are exempted from examination in the subjects covered by such diplomas.