8.
willing to accept service in Hongkong. The kind of surveyor required for filling in details is one similar to Sergeant Sutherland, R. E., who did a deal of the Apprues survey (after the triangulation had been made by Lieutenant Colonel Kitchener, R. E.)
and
of
whose work
great
I had frequent
opportunities of forming an opinion.
branch
on
of
connexion with the survey the Public Works Department I would take the opportunity of calling attention to the serious and almost daily inconvenience which that the Land Office
arises from the fact
is situated in a
533
separate building
3 yards from the Surveyor General's Office. Questions
to me that can
gre
constantly referred
only be settled by
to the Land Office records reference consequently much time is lost and public business suffers. The difficulty
is at
present increased owing to the
Land
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Land Officer being also Acting Registrar
of the Supreme Court, and consequently however pressing maybe the matter in- hand, it is often practically impossible
to communicate with him.
Overseers.
With reference
to the Clerk
of
Works, Inspectors, and Public Works Overseers, the existing Staff may probably prove sufficient for present. requirements, excepting as regards the Praya Reclamation for which special provision will have to be made. Soon after my arrival I became
of a feeling of dissatisfaction- certam members of this brauch of the service, arising from
aware
on the part of
apparent mequalities of salary and allowances. There is little doubt that
some of
these
OLO
grievance
I am
are well
disposed
to
founded, but think they may
of
not prove difficult
solution, I propose to submit this
matter
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