The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-06-20
LAND BUREAU
TO Be MOVED

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Important changes, both in regard to
| personnel and methods of administra-
ton, will follow the consolidation of
the Departments of Public Works, Land
and Survey. which will go into legal
and active effect on the first day of
July, the beginning of the new biennial
period.
In conformity with the plans of Su-
! perintendent of Public Works Marston
Campbell, who will have full executive
control over the three consolidated de.
| partments, the Public Lands Bureau
will be moved from its present quarters
in the Judiciary building and will be
! given space in the present quarters of
the Department of Public Works in the
Capitol. Mr.. Campbell believes that
i this will tend toward the Capitalization
of the work and be an important fac
tor in contributing to successful admin
| istration.
The Survey Department will remain
where it is at the present time, in the
building mainly occupied by the Board
of Health. 1t is believed that the Pub
lie Lands Department will be in full
| running order in its new quarters in
the Capitol by August j, although
Superintendent Campbell is not sure
that the new vault to be placed for the
reception of the valuable land records
of the Territory will be dry by that
date.
The quarters to be vacated in the
Judiciary building by the Public Lands
| Department will be used as an addition
to the present cramped accommodations
of the Tax Bureau, which has been
forced to endure inadequate accommo.
dations, electric lights being hung over
the clerks desks throughout the day,
in addition to the smallness and general
dinginess of the office.
Reduced Personnel.
The personnel of the departments
will be materially reduced, this being
necessary to come within the appropria-
ton made by the list Legislature of
$4,000 for operating expenses and sal
aries, and that is all that Superintend-
ent Campbell can figure ON in drawing
up his estimates.
| Land Commissioner Pratt will retire
July l, and Josh Tucker will be the
chief of the bureau under Superintend-
ent Campbell. The other changes in
this department IS personnel are not
known as yet, but it is believed that
there will be several.
Surveyor Wall will continue in office
as chief surveyor under the direction of
the consolidated departments execu-
tive head. 1t is understood that there
will be some changes in the personnel
of the survey bureau, all necessitated
by the reign of economy and centrali-
cation of duties that will come with
the beginning of the new biennial
period.
Similar action will be undertaken in
the Department of Public Works, but
Superintendent Campbell has not yet
given out the full program of new du-
ties and possible vacancies that will
occur.
Walter H. Bromley, who has been
acting as chief engineer of the water
works bureau, will be transferred to
} the pumping station on Beretania
avenue, and the force of inspectors will
also be affected by the new order of
things.
By reason of the fact that it has
been decided to move the Department
of Public Lands from the judiciary
building, Superintendent Campbell
thinks that it will be August / before
the machinery of the consolidation
scheme will be tuning to his satisfae.
, ton.
Will Fix Salaries.
The necessary alteration in the Pub.
| lie Works quarters in the Capitol and
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vide for the safe keeping of the land
records will be done without delay
and it is estimated that the general
| preliminary details incident to prac.
teal revolution in the administrative
functions of the three Territorial de
partments will be effected within the
] course of the month.
S Superintendent Campbell will have
the sole responsibility of the successful
conduct of the departments under the
! regime authorized by the last Legisla
ture and approved by Governor Frear
t He will apportion the work to the heads
3 of each bureau, and they will be re
sponsible to him.
The important question of salaries
for the employees of the consolidated
o department is entirely in the hands
q of Mr.. Campbell, and he can make re
A auctions or increases as he sees fit
: When the consolidated idea was consid
n cred in the Legislature, it was acknowl
a edged that it was such a radical de
: parture that it would be impossible II
bind the executive head in the matter
n of expenditures and, as a consequence
/ one appropriation was made to includ,
= everything, with the exception of tn,
. salary of $500 per month which Mr.
a Campbell will draw, and which is the