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work. Moreover, the triangulation of Gt.Britain

has been completed for a number of years and very

little, if any, triangulation is now done by the Ordnance Survey Department. Candidates in the past have been obtained from civilians employed in the Ordnance Survey Ofice who had been engaged on

revision work and in the Drawing O. fice and Colonel

Jack expressed the opinion that none of his staff

possessed all the quali ications now required by

the Colony. He stated that there were a number of

N.C.Os who possessed at of the knowledge required

and who could be trained to fulfil the Colonial re-

quirements but these men were not likely to be

attracted by the rates of pay offered by the Colony

and moreover he would be unwilling to release them.

In view of the act that the Colony

require surveyors competent to undertake any branch

of survey work, Colonel Jack agreed that the Ordnance

Burvey Office was not a suit ble place to obtain

cɛndidates, in fact what the Colony require are men

who have passed through a course of training similar

to that provided for Royal Engineer Officers at

Chatham. Colonel Jack stated that a suggestion had

been made to the Colonial Survey Department that

a six months' course should be provided at Southampton

for training candidates for Colonial survey work but

no arrangements for a ecurse of this character had

yet been made. Failing this, he thought it might

be possible to obtain men from Cambridge where he

understood a Geodetic course of instruction is now

given.