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C.O. 885

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APPENDIX X.

COST OF REVENUE SECTION.

1st Year. 3rd Year.

Explanations.

3. Increased to 3 in 2nd year.

Superintendent at £400–£20-£500 Duty pay at £80

£ 400

£ 440

80

80

3

2 Assistant Superintendents at £300–£15–

£400.

600

980

5

1 Assistant Superintendent, Computation and Drawing Office at £300-£15-£100. Commuted Allowances, 1 at £100, 3 at £50

300

650

4. Increased to 2 in 2nd year.

250

350

5. Increased by 2 at £50 in

2nd year.

G

Passages

124

220

7

20 5th Class Surveyors at £21-£3-£36

480

1,365

7. Increased to 55 in 2nd year,

50 in 3rd year.

8

Field Allowances at £1 a month...

220

550

8. Conditional on keeping

horse.

9

8 5th Class Computers and Draftenien at

£24–£3–£36.

192

461

10

Labour

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***

1,192

2,624

11

3 Interpreters at £30

90

120

11. Increased to 4 in 2nd year.

12

1 1st Class Clerk at £96–£6-£150

96

13

1 2nd Class Clerk at ££60–£6–£90

60

72

14

1 3rd Class Clerk at £24-£6-£54...

24

36

15

Instruments and Materials...

300

500

16

Incidentals

80

120

Total Ordinary Expenditure

4,392

8,667

300

Special Outlay on Instruments and

Materiala.

Total Expenditure... Revenue

4.692

8,667

6,400

12,800

Excess of Revenue over Expenditure

1,708

4,133

30th April, 1914.

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SIR,

9. Increased to 12 in 2nd year,

16 in 3rd year.

F. G. GUGGISBERG, Major, R.E.,

Surveyor-General.

No. 14.

NIGERIA.

THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(Confidential.)

(Received 16th May, 1914.) [Answered by No. 17.]

London, 14th May, 1914.

I HAVE received from Major Guggisberg a copy of the report* he has submitted to you as directed in Mr. Read's letter of the 20th April,† and I have given much thought to your despatch, Confidential, of 26th January, to which I replied in my despatch, Confidential, of 18th February.§

2. The Colonial Survey Committee recommended that the Survey Department of Nigeria should be organized under a single officer with three deputies under him, one for topographical and trigonometrical, and one for cadastral and land surveys in each group of provinces, northern and southern.

3. I pointed out in the despatch referred to that there were no topographical and trigonometrical surveys in the Northern Provinces to place under the Surveyor- General, and that the work of the Department in the Northern Provinces consisted merely in preparing detached plans of lands for leases, &c., of Government Stations. and of roads. The Colonial Survey Committee therefore probably based their recommendation on a misapprehension. The only work approximating to a survey

No. 10.

§ No. 11.

• No. 13.

† No. 12.

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of this class was undertaken by the special Minesfield Survey, which I placed entirely under the Surveyor-General, and the Northern Provinces Director of Surveys had nothing whatever to do with it.

4. I have lately, however, had to consider the programme of work for the Southern Provinces Topographical Section in the season of 1914-15. They have, as you are aware, been employed during the past season in surveying the country traversed by the railway, and the work done has been of the utmost possible value to the railway surveyors in locating the line. I propose, therefore, that they shall during next season continue this work in the northern section, which is difficult country, in which their work will be of great value in determining the best route to be followed. This area is in the Northern Provinces, and it will bring them to the boundary of the area included in the special Minesfield Survey. In these circumstances i concur that they should become a Central Department, since you have indicated your wish that the Department should be centralised.

5.

The Minesfield Survey will be completed by the special party now engaged in that work towards the end of the present year, and I propose that the field should

be declared open on 1st January, 1915, and that the topographical branch should link up with it and complete the survey to the standard of the remaining topo- graphical sheets, enlarging it so far as time permits during the season of 1915-16. I see no necessity for re-engaging No. 1 party. The cost will already have been far greater than was anticipated, and will considerably exceed £22,000. This programme will enable the topographical branch to connect up also with the measured base at Kano, and thus to co-ordinate the proposed Kano revenue survey -regarding which I will offer some proposals in a later paragraph.

8. The Topographical Survey consists of two portions, the topographical branch, composed of Captain Rowe, and Lieutenants Dare and Bell, with four non- commissioned officers, Royal Engineers; and the trigonometrical branch, under Lieutenants Bulkeley and Kentish, Royal Engineers, with three non-commissioned officers, Royal Engineers. The officers draw £525, with various allowances, and the non-commissioned officers are on varying rates from £200 to £290. In accordance with the recommendation of the Committee, I propose that this temporary military staff shall be replaced as soon as possible by a permanent civilian staff. Captain Rowe, of whom Major Guggisberg has an extremely high opinion, is, I understand, prepared to accept a permanent appointment, and I suggest that he should be appointed to the post which the Survey Committee proposes. viz., Deputy Director (or Assistant Surveyor-General), on £500-£20-£600, duty pay £100, commencing, in recognition of his excellent work, at £540. other two officers' agreements expire, they should be replaced by two First Grade Surveyors on £400-£20-£500, duty pay £80. There are seven officers of this grade in the combined Survey Departments of the Northern and Southern Provinces, two of whom should be selected for topographical qualifications and trained at once in the system and method carried out with such success by Captain Rowe. Similarly. the four Royal Engineer non-commissioned officers, who, as the Director-General of Ordnance points out, are best adapted for work under their own Army officers, should be replaced by four civilian Second Grade Surveyors.

As soon as the

7. The trigonometrical sections should be organized in a similar way under two First Grade Surveyors with three Second Grade.

8. It is recommended by the Committee that the so-called "Cadastral" sections of the Northern and Southern Provinces should each be under a Deputy Director. Mr. Cleminson is head of the Southern, and Mr. Collard of the Northern Province. I propose that there should be two First Grade Surveyors and three Second Grade in each. These branches will undertake the preparation of plans for land or mineral leases, and surveys of roads, &c. Each will, in addition, require a European draughtsman. A school instructor will also be required in the Northern and South- ern Provinces respectively.

9. There remains the so-called "Revenue Survey" in the Northern Provinces, and the special Cadastral Survey of Lagos. If the area to be covered by the Kano survey has already been scientifically surveyed by the trigonometrical and topo- graphical sections, as I propose it should be, the remaining work will consist merely of a measurement of farms on a moderately large scale man, based on the fixed points marked by the trigonometrical and topographical sections, and will largely be carried out by the pupils of the Survey School, who, as Major Guggisberg says, should commence the work even in their earliest instruction. carried out by one First Grade and two Second Grade Surveyors (who should be It can easily be