66               THE QUESTION OF LABOUR.
	consist in the moral influence he will exercise over the native who sees him actually doing the very duty which he, the native, is expected to do. Under the general manager, who has the entire oversight and direction of the operations in all the different departments, whose duty it is so to manage that the whole machine works easily and harmoniously, there will be the superintendents of the various sections; a mining captain in more immediate charge of each distinct group of opera­tions ; a chief engineer responsible for the machinery ; a reduction officer to conduct the reducing works; a surveyor; a surface superintendent; and an ac­countant—all of whom should report periodically to the manager. And these departmental reports should be forwarded by him, with his own remarks, to the board of directors at home.