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Works Department of this Colony.

2.

It will be observed that beyond the reductions in the staff and the salaries of the~ Staff of that Department which

originally recommended by Mr Cooper and communicated to Your Lordship in

were

my despatch

No 215 of the 16th June, 1899, the ~

Committee do not make

further

any- recommendations in

those directions excepting that for the abolition of the office of Superintendent of brown –

Lands

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Lands when opportunity offers. The Committee are of

3.

opinion that the work of the Land Survey Branch should be performed by one competent ~! Surveyor whilst on

whilst on the other.

hand Mr Cooper urges

at

any rate

that~

rate for the present it

is absolutely necessary to employ

as of

two Surveyors if the arrears work in the Survey Branch are

to be overtaken and the current

work is to be kept up to date.

4.

As I stated in

my despatch