Summary
Late Financial Adviser and Director-General of Surveys to the Government of Egypt, engaged in 1924 to report on Palestine’s survey, land and finance co-ordination and to prepare a land settlement scheme, in the Peel Commission Report’s account (Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, PDF p.230 / printed p.219).
Details
- A programme for land settlement operations, intended to obtain an accurate record of rights, was issued in 1926 following Dowson’s engagement (PDF p.230 / printed p.219).
- It was not till 1926, after Dowson’s appointment as Commissioner of Lands, that land settlement operations began in earnest and a programme for land survey and settlement was drawn up (PDF p.235 / printed p.224).