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lishing the school, and for safeguarding the interests of the Government in respect of the instruction afforded. You should communicate with the Governor of the Gold Coast with a view to obtaining the services of Mr. Esuman Gwira as the Native Instructor at the salary recommended by you, viz., £200 a year.

4. I shall address you in a further despatch as to the appointment of a European Instructor.

I have, &c.,

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to act as Land Officer during Mr. Barton-Wright's absence on leave were that he had, since the inauguration of the Department, been intimately connected with the work, and that in view of the fact that Mr. Campbell, the Assistant Land Officer, had only been appointed quite recently, he seemed the most suitable person. He was, in addition, discharging his duties as Deputy-Director of Cadastral Survey.

2. It will not, in future, be necessary to adopt similar measures, and I trust that your Lordship will consider the explanations given above satisfactory.

I have, &c.,

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J. HAYES SADLER.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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No. 96.

EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. [Answered by No. 104.]

(No. 583.) SIR,

Downing Street, October 25, 1907. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 338, of the 6th of August,* and to inform you that I approve of the appointment of Mr. S. W. J. Scholefield as Land Ranger in the Land Office at a salary of £300 a year. This arrangement must be regarded as temporary for the remainder of the financial year, but the appointment may be included in the draft estimates for next year for consideration with the general question of the Land and Survey Departments. In the meantime, it will probably be advisable not to fill Mr. Scholefield's place as an Assistant District Commissioner.

2. You will no doubt consider in sending the draft estimates the desirability of strengthening the office staff of the Cadastral Branch of the Surevy Department, to the inadequacy of which Major Hills drew attention in his report, or, in the alternative, of making further additions to the Land Office staff if it is decided to re-allocate the work done by the two departments.

3. My attention has been drawn to the desirability of making arrangements for securing more rapid and systematic progress with the topographical survey of the Protectorate. I do not wish in any way to reflect on the topographical work which has already been done by the Trigonometrical Branch, but it is evident that the present staff of that branch is inadequate for the execution of any extensive topographical work, which, I am advised, could most conveniently be carried out in conjunction with the trigonometrical work, without serious interference with their ordinary duties. I consider, therefore, that it will be well to provide in the estimates for an additional subaltern and two additional non-commissioned officers for the Trigonometrical Branch, which would in future be described as the Trigonometrical and Topographical Branch. The total extra cost is estimated at about £1,700 a year.

4. You will, of course. understand that these arrangements will be subject to the approval of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, and I have to remind you of their desire to be furnished, in connexion with the estimates for next year, with a statement showing the progress of the work and a forecast of the amount still remaining to be done and the approximate time required for its completion.

I have, &c.,

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No. 97.

EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received November 2, 1907.)

ELGIN.

Governor's Office, Nairobi, October 1, 1907. In reply to paragraphs 3, 4, and 5 of your Lordship's despatch, No. 438, of August 14th, I have the honour to report that my reasons for selecting Mr. Waring

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No. 98.

SOUTHERN NIGERIA.

THE DIRECTOR OF MILITARY OPERATIONS to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received November 12, 1907.)

The Director of Military Operations presents his compliments to the Under- Secretary of State for the Colonies and begs to acknowledge the receipt of a manu- script map, on a scale of 1:125,000, of Sheet 73-E., prepared by the Survey Department of Southern Nigeria.

Major-General Ewart has the following remarks to make on the subject of the map and on the general question of the topographical survey of Southern Nigeria:-

(1) The map is the first which has been received since the formation of the Survey Department. It is, therefore, important that the work should be examined critically.

(2) The map has been constructed by assembling the plots of a large number of accurate traverses carried out by the Survey Department. The traverses may be said to form an excellent framework. Unfortunately very little attention has been paid to detail off the line of traverse.

map has the following defects:-

(3) The

(a) No heights have been determined away from the railway.

(b) No serious attempt has been made to represent the hill features. Such hill features as are represented are shown in a curiously conventional and incomplete fashion.

(c) A large portion of the area is still unexplored. The courses

of most of the rivers are unsurveyed. In fact the survey

is incomplete and the map is a skeleton.

(d) Important detail is omitted." Thus, the telegraph lines are incomplete, telegraph offices and rest houses are not marked.

(4) That the map is not a satisfactory topographical map may be seen if it is compared with the French maps of Senegal, Madagascar, and New Caledonia, examples of which are attached.

(5) It was explained clearly to the Director of Surveys, when he was last in England, that he should complete sheet by sheet. He has not done this, but has, instead, scattered his surveyors over three sheets. A concentration of effort to survey a definite area of country would have been preferable to the system which he adopted (in spite of instructions to the contrary) of inadequately and incompletely sur- veying a large area.

(6) It would appear desirable to inform Sir Walter Egerton that, having regard to the length of time during which the Survey Department has been in existence and the amount of money spent on the surveys. the map cannot be considered satisfactory, and that it is doubtful if better results will be produced so long as the Directorship of the Department is held by Mr. Cotton.