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7. The party should not work all the year round, but there should be a recess season during which the sheets should be fair drawn and the computation brought up to date and arrangements made for reproducing the sheets.

8. It is not necessary to triangulate the whole island at once. Only sufficient triangulation should be done to provide fixed points for, say, the next two seasons' work.

9. The party might conveniently consist of:-

2 European Surveyors,

3 Indian Surveyors,

chainmen, labourers, &c.

10. Cost.

The estimated cost of 1/10,000 work in Uganda is (a) £8 a square mile. 1/5,000 work would be about double this, say, £16 a square mile. (In East Africa the surveyors' fees are £12 a square mile, this does not include the trigono- metrical framework). Or the question of cost can be approached in this way. A party of the strength described above might be expected to survey 100 square miles

a season.

The cost would be—

1 Surveyor

1 Surveyor

3 Indians >

Chainmen Labourers Contingencies

£500

350

450

300

300

100

£2,000

The cost would thus work out (b) to £20 per square mile.

Taking a mean between (a) and (b), the cost may be taken as £18 a square mile, and assuming the area required to be surveyed to be effectively two-thirds of the entire area of 640 square miles, as a first approximate estimate the total cost may be put down as 426 x 18, or £7,668.

To this sum must be added :—

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work now being carried out, one showing work done by traverses and the other by intersections. The Committee expressed satisfaction with the work. It was recom- mended that the sheets should be sent home as completed and that they should be engraved.

Mr. Warren drew attention to the interference with the topographical work caused by the withdrawal of men for surveys in connexion with settlement work. He pointed out that the extent of this interference could not be measured merely the fact that fifteen out of twenty-five of the topographical men had been detached, by since it was necessary that the men detached for new work should be the most experienced men available, and that, therefore, only the less trained men were left; and he also represented that the variety of the demands of the settlement department was a great hindrance to the progress of the work.

The Committee decided to recommend strongly that arrangements should be made that the relative proportions of topographical and revenue surveys recom- mended by Major Hills should not be disturbed.

2. Federated Malay States-Colonel Jackson's scheme for the establishment of Survey Cadetships was read, and it was finally agreed that the proposals should be examined in detail by Colonel Close and Major Hills, who would draw up a memorandum. Colonel Grant expressed the opinion that the six months' course at Southampton, which was proposed, was too long, and that it would be more satis- factory for the cadets to receive the latter part of their preliminary training in the country in which they would have to work.

3. Zanzibar.-A letter from the Foreign Office on the subject of Colonel Close's memorandum as to the survey of Zanzibar was read. It appeared to the Committee that the fact had escaped notice that the scheme had been proposed by Mr. Walrond Clarke, who had since been appointed Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar, and it was recommended that the Foreign Office should be asked to obtain Mr. Clark's views on the matter.

4. East Africa Protectorate.-The Committee recommended that approval should be given to the Governor's proposal that Major Smith's services should be retained for a further eighteen months at the increased salary of £900, and that Captain Knox's employment should be extended for three years on the existing

terms.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

C.O. 885

20 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

Passages

£500

Purchase of instruments

500

Signals and marks

800

Publication of plans and records

300

Cost of delays due to sickness

?

£2,100

The total cost will then be £9,768 (say, £10,000) spread over four or five years.* 11. When the Superintendent of the Survey is appointed he should be directed to draw up a detailed estimate.

C. F. CLOSE.

31 August, 1908.

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No. 17.

MINUTES OF MEETING OF THE COLONIAL SURVEY COMMITTEE, 30TH MARCH, 1909.

PRESENT:

Colonel GRANT,

Lieutenant-Colonel CLOSE,

Mr. READ, and

Mr. BOTTOMLEY (Secretary),

Major E. H. HILLS, C.M.G., R.E., also attended, at the request of the

Committee.

1. Ceylon. Mr. Warren, the Surveyor-General of Ceylon, attended the Com- mittee and showed two plane tables in illustration of the two-inch topographical

• It is assumed that there is office accommodation and that Government quarters can be found for the two surveyors during the recess season.

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No. 18.

SOUTHERN NIGERIA.

THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(Confidential.)

MY LORD,

(Received 14 April, 1909.)

[Answered by No. 20.]

Government House, Lagos, Southern Nigeria,

27th March, 1909.

In reply to your Lordship's confidential despatch of the 8th January, I have the honour to transmit copy of a letter, dated the 19th March, from Mr. Cotton, Director of Surveys, replying to the criticisms of the Director of Military Operations on sheets 73 I and 73 J.

2. The tone adopted by Mr. Cotton is much to be regretted, and does not, in my opinion, strengthen the otherwise weak and unsatisfactory rejoinder.

3. Your Lordship's despatch, confidential, of the 17th February,† foreshadows the enquiry into the working of the Survey Department which Mr. Cotton asks for in paragraph 12 of his letter.

4. I enclose the original tracing forwarded with your Lordship's despatch under replyt; an amended tracingt by Mr. Cotton; plant of the town of Lagos; plant

• No. 2.

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