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J. Haddock
Deputy Director of Land Records
Extract from the Rangoon Gazette, 1918
Deputy Director of Land Records
Extract from the Rangoon Gazette, 1918
Retirement of Mr J. Haddock
The departure of Mr J.A.T. Haddock to Europe preparatory to retirement removes from this province another well known and old official of the Government of Burma. The son of Captain John Haddock, District Engineer, Public Works Department, Madras, Mr John Andrew Thomas Haddock was born at Trichinopoly in the Madras presidency on the 16th October 1863 and was educated in South India principally at Bangalore.
On passing out of college Mr Haddock joined as an assistant on one of the large coffee estates on the Shevaroy Hills, Salem district, but a couple of years later owing to the extensive destruction of the coffee plantations in Ceylon by a blight which quickly spread to the estates on the mainland, Mr Haddock decided to join Government service. He passed the competitive examination for admission into the Survey of India department and joined that service on the 31st October 1887 as a probationary Assistant Surveyor, 3rd grade on Rs. 120 and a year later was transferred to Burma and attached to No. 7 Thongwa Party Survey of India.
On the 25th April 1891 he was promoted to a 2nd grade Assistant Surveyor-ship and six months later was placed on special duty under the Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Burma, in connection with the scheme for the introduction of regular supplementary survey in Burma and was appointed as officer in charge traverse camp No. 4 Lower Burma field-to-field survey by local agency, which appointment he held till the 31st October 1893 when consequent on the disbandment of the local agency survey party, he was seconded for service in the Burma Land Records department and appointed as a Superintendent of Land Records, 5th grade and posted to the charge of the Land Records in the Prome and Thayetmyo districts. A year before his services were transferred to the Burma Land Records department, Mr Haddock was promoted to a 2nd grade, Sub-assistant Superintendent-ship, Survey of India department, receiving a further rise to the 1st grade on the 13th October 1896 ; he was appointed as a 6th grade Extra Asst. Superintendent, Survey of India on the 15th December 1900, being promoted to the 5th grade on the 18th August 1903 and attaining the rank of a 1st grade Extra Asst. Superintendent on the 1st February 1912.
In the Burma Land records department his career was equally successful. Being appointed to the 5th grade of Superintendents on the 30th October 1893 he received a grade promotion two years hence and a further step as a 3rd grade Superintendent of Land Records on the 28th May 1900. On the 15th July 1908 he was given a sub pro tem appointment as a 2nd grade Superintendent being confirmed in that grade on the 21st June 1909.
On the retirement of Mr J.C. Clancey on the 7th June 1913, Mr Haddock was appointed as Assistant Director of Land Records on probation being confirmed in that appointment on the 27th April 1914. In May of this year consequent on the appointment of Mr J. Clague, I.C.S., to the I.A.R.O., Mr Haddock was appointed to hold the sub pro-tem appointment of Deputy Director of Land Records with effect from the 5th may which post he held at the time of his retirement.
During his service Mr Haddock held charge of the Land Records of the Mandalay, Sagaing, Kyaukse, Hanthawaddy and Pegu districts. During his total service of nearly thirty-one years Mr Haddock was absent on leave for a total period of one year and nine months, 6 months of this being privilege leave and the balance furlough leave. Mr Haddock attained the age of 55 years on the 16th of this month [October.] He has proceeded to England on three months privilege leave preparatory to retirement. An able and energetic officer, he was eminently successful both as Assistant Director and Deputy Director of Land Records and by his retirement the Burma Land Records department loses the services of one of its ablest officers.
Having served for thirty years in Burma his knowledge of the province was considerable and both as Assistant and Deputy Director his tours of Inspector embraced practically all the districts of the province. He was an excellent Survey officer and was intimately connected with the operations of the special Survey Party during the past four or five years and of the Mines Survey Party during the past two years. Mr Haddock was selected by his brother officers to give evidence on behalf of the Burma Land Records department before the Public Services Commission and those who have read the evidence will remember that he was insistent on the point of improving the prospects of the department in the matter of leave, pay, etc. Mr Haddock has been succeeded in the appointment of Deputy Director by Mr L.E. Palmer, who will hold the appointment of Assistant Director of Land Records in addition till an officer is appointed to the latter post.
The departure of Mr J.A.T. Haddock to Europe preparatory to retirement removes from this province another well known and old official of the Government of Burma. The son of Captain John Haddock, District Engineer, Public Works Department, Madras, Mr John Andrew Thomas Haddock was born at Trichinopoly in the Madras presidency on the 16th October 1863 and was educated in South India principally at Bangalore.
On passing out of college Mr Haddock joined as an assistant on one of the large coffee estates on the Shevaroy Hills, Salem district, but a couple of years later owing to the extensive destruction of the coffee plantations in Ceylon by a blight which quickly spread to the estates on the mainland, Mr Haddock decided to join Government service. He passed the competitive examination for admission into the Survey of India department and joined that service on the 31st October 1887 as a probationary Assistant Surveyor, 3rd grade on Rs. 120 and a year later was transferred to Burma and attached to No. 7 Thongwa Party Survey of India.
On the 25th April 1891 he was promoted to a 2nd grade Assistant Surveyor-ship and six months later was placed on special duty under the Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Burma, in connection with the scheme for the introduction of regular supplementary survey in Burma and was appointed as officer in charge traverse camp No. 4 Lower Burma field-to-field survey by local agency, which appointment he held till the 31st October 1893 when consequent on the disbandment of the local agency survey party, he was seconded for service in the Burma Land Records department and appointed as a Superintendent of Land Records, 5th grade and posted to the charge of the Land Records in the Prome and Thayetmyo districts. A year before his services were transferred to the Burma Land Records department, Mr Haddock was promoted to a 2nd grade, Sub-assistant Superintendent-ship, Survey of India department, receiving a further rise to the 1st grade on the 13th October 1896 ; he was appointed as a 6th grade Extra Asst. Superintendent, Survey of India on the 15th December 1900, being promoted to the 5th grade on the 18th August 1903 and attaining the rank of a 1st grade Extra Asst. Superintendent on the 1st February 1912.
In the Burma Land records department his career was equally successful. Being appointed to the 5th grade of Superintendents on the 30th October 1893 he received a grade promotion two years hence and a further step as a 3rd grade Superintendent of Land Records on the 28th May 1900. On the 15th July 1908 he was given a sub pro tem appointment as a 2nd grade Superintendent being confirmed in that grade on the 21st June 1909.
On the retirement of Mr J.C. Clancey on the 7th June 1913, Mr Haddock was appointed as Assistant Director of Land Records on probation being confirmed in that appointment on the 27th April 1914. In May of this year consequent on the appointment of Mr J. Clague, I.C.S., to the I.A.R.O., Mr Haddock was appointed to hold the sub pro-tem appointment of Deputy Director of Land Records with effect from the 5th may which post he held at the time of his retirement.
During his service Mr Haddock held charge of the Land Records of the Mandalay, Sagaing, Kyaukse, Hanthawaddy and Pegu districts. During his total service of nearly thirty-one years Mr Haddock was absent on leave for a total period of one year and nine months, 6 months of this being privilege leave and the balance furlough leave. Mr Haddock attained the age of 55 years on the 16th of this month [October.] He has proceeded to England on three months privilege leave preparatory to retirement. An able and energetic officer, he was eminently successful both as Assistant Director and Deputy Director of Land Records and by his retirement the Burma Land Records department loses the services of one of its ablest officers.
Having served for thirty years in Burma his knowledge of the province was considerable and both as Assistant and Deputy Director his tours of Inspector embraced practically all the districts of the province. He was an excellent Survey officer and was intimately connected with the operations of the special Survey Party during the past four or five years and of the Mines Survey Party during the past two years. Mr Haddock was selected by his brother officers to give evidence on behalf of the Burma Land Records department before the Public Services Commission and those who have read the evidence will remember that he was insistent on the point of improving the prospects of the department in the matter of leave, pay, etc. Mr Haddock has been succeeded in the appointment of Deputy Director by Mr L.E. Palmer, who will hold the appointment of Assistant Director of Land Records in addition till an officer is appointed to the latter post.