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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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TTTTT C.O. 885

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(3) Advanced practical surveying, to include a survey and preparation of plan of an area comprising several holdings, and the use of the theodolite, plane-table, and prismatic compass.

9. Officers on promotion to the grade of Classes V., IV., and III., will serve a probationary period of not less than twelve months, and will be degraded if the probation be unsatisfactory. No increments of salary will be granted during the probationary service.

10. The annual increment of salary will be granted only if the Officer's conduct and service during the preceding twelve months have been satisfactory, and will otherwise follow the general rules of the service as to grants of increments.

11. All pay and emoluments of Land Registry Officers will be subject to the powers of the Legislative Council in voting the amounts required for the annual Estimates.

12. Every appointment made under the provisions of these Regulations will be subject to the rules regulating the public service of Cyprus, and will be an appoint- ment in the Land Registry Department generally, and every Officer will be liable to serve in any branch of the Land Registry Office of any District, or in any part of the Island, as may be required. On removal from one station to another, an Officer will be granted the usual removal expenses sanctioned for the Cyprus service generally. (There are special leave regulations for Land Registry Clerks.)

13. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 11, all appointments beyond the grade of Class VI. will be pensionable and will be subject to the rules and orders from time to time issued in that regard.

14. On the recommendation of the Registrar-General the High Commissioner may authorize a clerk employed as surveyor, field clerk, valuer, enquiry clerk, or sub-officer being placed on any of the incremental scales above-mentioned, and while so employed he may also authorize his exemption from the requirement to pass all or any of the above examinations.

15. In order that a Clerk may be eligible to promotion to any grade, it is necessary that he should have passed all the tests required for that grade.

16. Clerks will be required to make their own arrangements for instruction. 17. No extra remuneration fees will be paid to Land Registry Clerks for plans, local enquiries, copies, and translations.

18. These regulations are subject to alteration by the High Commissioner from time to time.

STATEMENT required by paragraph 7 of the Chief Secretary's minute.

The financial effect of the decision of the meeting will have the following ultimate effect on the Cyprus Estimates :-

There is at present in the Cyprus Estimate authorised expenditure which will ultimately amount to as follows:--

Schedule 10 (A)—

Chief Surveyor

1 Surveyor and Draughtsman

5 District Land Registry Chief Clerks

Personal allowance to Mr. Jelajian

15 First Class Land Registry Clerks

Extra qualification allowances

4 Student Clerks ...

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The decisions of the meeting will ultimately result in an expenditure under Schedule 10 (A) as follows:-

Survey Staff

...

2 Land Registry Clerks, Class I. Personal allowance to Mr. Jelajian 3 Land Registry Clerks, Class II. 5 Land Registry Clerks, Class III. 14 Land Registry Clerks, Class IV, 80 Land Registry Clerks, Class V. 36 Land Registry Clerks, Class VI.

Nicosia, Cyprus,

14th September, 1911.

37735

SIR,

(No. 608.)

No. 56.

£ 1,410

408

50

468

640

1,428

5,760

864

£11,028

Registrar-General.

F. ONGLEY,

EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received November 24, 1911.)

[Answered by No. 59.]

Government House, Nairobi, British East Africa,

October 30th, 1911. You will have observed from my telegram, No. 156, of July 21st,* and other correspondence, that considerable inconvenience, besides great loss of revenue and retardment to the development of the Protectorate, has been caused by the long delays which have occurred in appointing surveyors, computors, and draughtsmen to fill the posts sanctioned in the Estimates. During the whole of 1910-11 the Cadastral Branch was 25 per cent. short of its authorised establishment, and during the present year the case is even worse. As a result many schemes which are directly productive of revenue, e.g., the Coast Lands Settlement, the allotment of farms to settlers, and the laying out of townships and roads, are unreasonably, and at times indefinitely, delayed, and much dissatisfaction is caused to the public. It is sufficient, I think, to quote the figures in connection with the arrears of survey to bring to your notice forcibly the urgency of the matter. On March 31st, 1910, the arrears of survey were 813,000 acres, whilst on March 31st, 1911, they had increased to 1,520,000 2. Not only have we suffered by the vacancies in the Survey Department not being filled, but at times the men who have been engaged in England have been found on their arrival to be unqualified. Such men are useless, for, as has already been pointed out, the Survey Department is unable, through insufficiency of staff, to spare time to instruct inexperienced men, and the expenses of these officials in transport alone are far in excess of the value of their work, which is generally so inaccurate as to necessitate it being done a second time by better men.

acres.

3. The position in East Africa differs greatly from that obtaining in Ceylon or the Malay States, with which Colonies this Protectorate is grouped for the purpose

250

140

820

50

1,350 150

61 Second Class Land Registry Clerks...

3,660

72

Allowances to Officers in charge of sub-offices

50

Fees for plans

60

Schedule 10 (B)—

General registration and revaluation (the remainder of this vote will continue to be shown under Schedule 10 (B)) ...

3,052

£9,654

26548

of providing survey probationers. The survey staff in East Africa is small; it is still grappling with large arrears of work, and the majority of the surveys have to be carried out in uninhabited roadless country which has to be cut up into large holdings of from 2,000 to 10,000 acres. For such work fully qualified and experi- enced surveyors are essential. Men who have the necessary qualifications are seldom obtainable in England, but they are to be found in the Dominions. They will not, however, accept employment except at the highest salaries laid down in the Survey

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