DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS IN THE WESTERN REGION, NIGERIA
| Date | 01 January 1956 |
| Published date | 01 January 1956 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1956.tb00514.x |
REFERENCE
MARKS IN
LAND
SETTLEMENT
45
cost of each
mark
must
depend on local
conditions;
but
it
may
be mentioned
as a guide
that
in
the
northern Sudan, when labourers were being paid four or
five shillings a day, marks could be cast in place
at
a cost of
about
fifteen
shillings each,
and
mass-produced very
much
more cheaply. At
the
frequency
suggested above this amounts roughly to a
penny
halfpenny
per
acre, which is
only one fortieth of
the
total
cost
per
acre of
the
development now being carried
out
in Southern Rhodesia, where each
year
roughly a million pounds is being
spent
on developing four million acres."
It
is therefore a small price to
pay
for an insurance
that
the
future of these development schemes will
not
be
spoilt by squabbles over land boundaries. These will be intensified by
its
increasing value,
and
the
government
may
find itself unable to settle
them
without considerable difficulty
and
expense, if
the
right action is
not
taken
at
the
start.
H.M.S.a.
1952
Land
Tenure: Some Explanations and
Definitions.
lA.A.
Vol. VI,
No.2,
1954
Note following a visit to some African
farming areas
in
Southern Rhodesia.
lA.A.
Vol. VI,
No.2.
1954
The Native Purchase Areas
of
Southern
Rhodesia.
lA.A.
Vol.
VII,
No.1.
1955
iVative
Husbandry
Act
of
Southern
Rhodesia.
lA.A.
Vol.
VII,
No.3. 1955
Survey and Registration
of
African
Land
Units ill Southern Rhodesia.
lA.A.
Vol. VII,
No.4,
1955.
Pendcred, A.
and
von Memertv, \Y.
Bradford, J. E. S.
Winnington-Ingram, C.
REFERENCES
Dowson, Sir Ernest,
and
Sheppard,
Land
Registration.
V. L.
a.
Simpson, S. R
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thanks
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due
to Col. J. E, S.
Bradford
and
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and
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for
their
comments
on
the
early
drafts
of
this
article.
DUTIES
AND FUNCTIONS
OF
ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICERS
IN
THE
vVESTERN I
NIGERIA
We reproduce below an appendix from
the
Western Region of Nigeria
Sessional Paper
No.1
of 1955 on
the
subject of
the
rcsponsibilites of central
government officers in
that
Region in
the
light of recent constitutional changes.
This paper will prove of considerable interest to those administrative officers
who are employed in territories which are approaching
the
ultimate
stage of
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We understand
that
the
changes of designation envisaged
In
the paper will
take
place on
January
1st,
195(1.
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scope
and
functions of
any
branch of
the
government of a modern
state
are not static things which can be laid down precisely for all time. They
must
obViously be
adapted
and
developed in harmony with
the
growth and develop-
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supplied
privately
to
the
writer
by
Col.
Bradford.
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