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Memorandum on the system under which large Public Works

are carried out in the Crown Colonies.

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Reference to a Consulting Engineer.

Preliminary survoys and collection of information.

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The following is a brief outline of the

system under which large Public Works are

usually carried out in the Crown Colonies.

is intended only as a general statement of

the principles governing the system and the

main lines of responsibility, special circum-

stances froquently requiring modification of the

arrangements described.

2. When railways or other important works are

projected in a Colony the course usually follow-

od is for the Colonial Govermaent to lay down

their requirements and the various conditions

to be fulfilled. When the work is a very

or of a nature falling outside the

large one,

experience of the local officers, the next

step is to refer the matter to a Consulting

Engineer of high standing and specially qualified

to deal with the class of work contemplated, in

order that he may advise how the Government

requirements can best be met.

3.To enable a Consulting Engineer to advise,

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it is usually necessary that he should either

visit the Colony in person to collect information

and make the requisite surveys and. observations

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or that an engineer selected by hin and acting

on his instructions should be sent put for the

purpose. Or the Consulting Engineer, may taką

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with him an engineer, leaving him in the

Colony as long as may be necessary to

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