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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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CADASTRAL BRANCH.

The provision for road survey has been omitted, with corresponding other charges. The amount estimated for licensed surveyors has been omitted, but I note that it is anticipated that difficulty is expected in obtaining a sufficient supply of Cadastral Surveyors immediately, and I hope that if savings accrue from this cause that they may be appropriated to paying for licensed surveyors during the year 1907-08.

At the same time I wish to point out that I retained in my original estimate the full amount for licensed surveyors, because of the long arrears of work which I was anxious to reduce as early as possible.

With regard to Your Excellency's remarks, I should like to put on record the following:-

It is true that the estimates which I furnished would have been a step in the direction of my report of 1905. Since that report no considerable increase in the staff has taken place, whilst the requirements have continued to increase.

A rapid increase is urgently required. As a precedent I quote the case of the Gold Coast Surveys, where heavy expenditure was suddenly undertaken, with the best results.

Although the estimates do not specifically show it, natives, both Indians and Chainmen, Africans, are being employed to the utmost of their capabilities. draughtsmen, and computers are natives, and I now propose to train some helio- statists, making a proportionate reduction on the item of trigonometrical points.

In order to make clear that porters are used as native labour when not actually marching, I now show only one sub-heading for both, viz., Local Transport and

Labour.

I think it is possible that on one point a considerable saving may be made at home. I hear that a large number of Troughton and Simms' micrometer transit theodolites, which have been employed on the Gold Coast, are now set free, and, if these can be sent here they would merely require a maker's overhaul, making a saving on the purchase of instruments.

His Excellency

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SIR.

1906.

I have, &c.,

G. E. SMITH, Captain, R.E.,

The Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief,

East Africa Protectorate,

Mombasa.

No. 10.

FEDERATED MALAY STATES.

Director of Surveys.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE HIGH COMMISSIONER.

(No. 5.)

Downing Street, January 9, 1907.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of the 7th Secretary of State. No. 321, Nov. 28, instant,* stating, in reply to the despatch and telegram noted in the margin,† that the Govern- ment of the Federated Malay States accept the proposal that Major Hills, R.E., CM.G., on the working of the Survey Department there.

Secretary of State, Telegram, Jan. 5, 1907.

should visit the States, and report

2.

I enclose a copy of the instructions‡ which have been given to Major Hills.

I have, &c.,

ELGIN.

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SIR,

No. 11.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNORS, &c.

(1. Gambia. No. 6.)

(2. Sierra Leone. No. 15.)

(3. Gold Coast. No. 18.)

(4. Southern Nigeria. No. 46.)

(5. Northern Nigeria. No. 20.)

(6. Somaliland. No. 6.)

(7. Uganda. No. 11.)

(8.

East Africa Protectorate. No. 26.)

(9. British Central Africa Protectorate. No. 7.)

Downing Street, January 11, 1907. I HAVE the honour to inform you that a survey class for colonial officials, civil and military, will be held at the Ordnance Survey Office at Southampton in the course of the summer of the present and future years. This class has been formed to take the place of the course of instruction which in past years has been held at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham, but which has now been discontinued.

2. The class will assemble about the middle of June, and will be continued for thirty working days. Instruction will be given in field sketching and rapid topo- graphical work, and also in trigonometrical and astronomical work, but these last subjects will, as a rule, be open only to officials employed in Colonial Survey Depart-

ments.

3. The number of officers attending the class will, if possible, be limited to ten. and cannot, in any case, excced twelve. No officer, whether civil or military, will be allowed to attend it unless he is recommended by the Head of the Government under which he is serving, but all officers of colonial military forces will be eligible and also any civil officers who may be specially recommended for the purpose.

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4. Despatches on the subject should reach me, if possible, by the middle of April, in order that the necessary communications may be sent in proper time to the Director-General of the Ordnance Survey. It will be necessary that any officer who is to attend the course shall have arrived in this country, and shall have reported himself to the Colonial Office in writing, before the beginning of June, in order that it may be possible to send final instructions to him when the date of the meeting of the class is known.

An officer attending the course will be required to obtain a certificate showing that he has satisfied the authorities of the Ordnance Survey with regard to his regularity of attendance, progress, and proficiency, and for this purpose to undergo any examinations which they may consider necessary. In the event of his qualifying in the above manner (but not otherwise), and on his entering into an agreement with the Crown Agents for the Colonies by which he will be liable to repay the sums in the event of his failing to return to his appointment or his

Colony relinquishing it within three years of the date of his next arrival in the Protectorate for any other reason than physical or mental infirmity, he will be allowed from Colonial Protectorate

funds the following sums, viz. :-

(i.) His railway fare, first class, from his place of residence to the place of instruction at the beginning of the course, and return fare at the end of it.

(ii) An allowance of 2s. 6d. a night towards the cost of lodging, if he has to

sleep away from his place of residence.

I have, &c.,

ELGIN.

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† No. 133 in African No. 777 and 33529 : not printed.

Enclosure in No. 8,

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