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Mr Malsch ui his letter of the 9th of october 1891, attached) to that occupied by

ALL

Engineer it seems

ana

euvring to special training -qualifications necessary to attain to that position to be placing a

who has had

Enquieering training

in

møder i

iri (

false

position to call him a Land Surveyor. ince the publishing of the Ordnance Savest

England very fewEngineers. opportunity of becoming ficient Land Surveyors.

have had an

becomi

for any

A person wishing to

lana u

surveyor

would not

ce

engineers office reephin

connection with foreign work where

no such plans as Ordnance

Lates

say

are obtainable.

се

a v

not

for

that Enquicers

Survey

A urnent

should not be

able to make surveys to the exkut that is required in this Colony for

the

soles of Ornon lands, the firing

set

of boundaries and

setting out of public works. Fideed in my

opiiion every inquireer

#

the

Department should be capable of

doing this work and should consider it no hardship to be called

on to perform it.

credit of

the

I say it is not to the

Departmen

who is an

Land Surveyor,

might apply for

out to have a

Enguicer called.

sich a

7 ?

real land

surveyor's position elsewhere and be apponitea on the strength of the supposition he had held such an apponitment in this Department and be found quite incapables of

the duties of his new performing the duties of

office.

The Colonial office may

assume from the title that an esperienced Land Surveyor exists in

the