CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12] — Page 544

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I saw His Excellency yesterday on this mat-

ter and am of opinion that the proposals suggested of amal-

gamating the posts of District Officer and Assistant Land

officer will be advantageous from a Land Office point of

view.

There is no doubt that the New Territories have

suffered from the unavoidable changes of officers acting

as Assistant Land Officer whose views very naturally have

not always been the same, it is very desirable that there

should be as few changes as possible in order that there

may be a continuity of the Government's Policy in dealing

with the peasant population and by amalgating the posts as

suggested there would be more thanceof this being done than

at present. It would be very essential however that one

of the officers should be subordinate to the other and it

would be necessary that both officers should be gazetted as

Assistant Land Officers in order that they may have the

necessary powers conferred by the New Territories Land Or-

dinance 1905 and others under which the New Territories is

now administered so far as regards land matters.

With regard to the Collection of Revenue I

do not think any difficulty will arise; it is a system

adopted in other countries and in England where all local

authorities do their own collecting.and in India and the

Straits Settlements I understand revenue is collected by

the District Officers.

(Sd) G. H. Wakeman

Land Officer

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