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Q-Do you
think any assistance is necessary ?
A--Yes.
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Q-What assistance?
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A-An overseer who knows something about surveying, to make out these land plans, and keep the register posted.
Q-But you do that at present?
A-That is extra duty to me.
Q-But if you manage to do everything between 8.30 a.m. and 5 p.m., would not the addition of another overseer practically mean the dividing of work sufficient for one officer only among two officers ?
A-My ordinary duties as Land Bailiff are somewhat neglected because I have to be nearly all the time in the office.
Q-What duties are neglected?
A-There might be some encroachment going on in some outlying village which wants inspecting periodically.
Q-How often do you go round the Colony on these visits of inspection?
A-Sometimes twice a year.
Q-And how often before when you were Land Bailiff only?
A-Sometimes two or three times.
Q-Only one time more? Do the Police not help you to check these unauthorised squatters by reporting?
A--No.
Q-Have they co-operated?
A-No.
Q-Do
you think if the Police co-operated it would be quite sufficient?
A-Yes, it would diminish the work in Shek O and Stanley, and places where it takes a day to get at.
Q-Would it facilitate matters considerably
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A-It would facilitate matters as far as the Land Bailiff was concerned.
Q-And matters being facilitated in that way, do you think it would be necessary to have an overseer for the superintending of Crown lands?
A-I think so.
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Q-What would he have to do?
A-He would have to check all plans and keep the register up.
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Q-But you are able to do that at present, and how is it that two men are neces-
A-One man would do the office work and the Land Bailiff would be out and about and would not require so much of the co-operation of the Police.
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the staff?
A-That I cannot answer.
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