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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 2, Issue 265, 10 February 1881, Page 1

I>p Surveyors, Civil Engineers, &c. [a card.] Hastings Bridge, UTHOEISED SURVEYOR, Licensed under Land Transfer Act. i Office : Hobbs and Co.’s new Buildings, High street, second floor, Christchurch. 675

MR. HARDY JOHNSTON, CIVIL ENGINEER AND , ' ARCHITECT, AUTHORISED AND LICENSED ' SURVEYOR, I VALUER AND ARBITRATOR, Is prepared’to execute Surveys, Engineering and Architectural Designs, Estimates, and Reports, and Value Property in town or country at the following tariff of charges, exclusive of travelling expenses. SURVEY CHARGES. ; ‘For any fractional part of an acre, and not exceeding-Eve acres, two guineas. Exceeding five: acres and under twenty-five acres, three guineas. Exceeding twenty-five acres and under fifty acres, three guineas for the first twenty-five acres, and one shilling per acre for balance. / Exceeding fifty acres and under one hundred icres, four guineas for the first .fifty acres, and One shilling per acre for balance. • 'Exceeding one Hundred acres and under five hundred 'acres, five guineas for the first one hundred acres, 'and ninepence per acre for .balance. ■ .■ ; ; -Exceeding five hundred acres and under five j thousand;'faihepence per acre for the first five hundred acres, and sixpence per ■ acre for balance., : . J .’ For sub-dividing into allotments carefully pegged and numbered, the charge, in addition to the above, would be two shillings for each town allotment comprising any fiactional part :of an acre, and two shillings, and sixpence lor each suburban or rural section comprising one acre arid upwards,

...The above charges'do hot apply to very 'hilly or broken country, ■ or' lo “ bush ’’ land, in’ which case from twenty-five to fifty percent, would have to-be added ih proportion to the difficulties 'met with in the country to be suri vdyfed, and also in discovering the boundaries of tJi6 : Gro\vn Grants. : •"■ :i ■' ; iSFair;copies of Ihe survey plan drawn bn mounted paper, ■,together, with book .of refer,ence, if, required, will be furnished at the rate of ten per cent. on the cost of the survey. . All surveys will be carried out and completed in accordance-with the rules and instructions -issued: bjs the .Surveyor-General for .the guidance pf the -Survey .Department of the: Government, afid will be certified to asbetng correct. ThW'cfiarge per' day would be two guineas Clear pf ; all expenses shpuld clients prefer that inode of payment. 'p. ; CHARGES. - . ..Jir making surveys of .land for engineering purposes, Slrchy for instance, as the drainage or or irrigation of districts'Of country, the drain-

i 3£ e or water supply of towns, construction of: railways,, co'jnmon .roads apd bridges, canals, harbors,, river improvements, &c., the charges -woitldibe fbr /plans;: design, estimate, report, &c , at the rate Of three per cent, oh the total Vesliniated-oost of the . proposed work if under j above : 5,000 and- under ■ r tjirce per cent, on the first and, two and .4. halr per cent, on the balance,; above 10,000 ’andiufadeh £sto,ooo, two and a half per cent, 'on' tie first £10,000,1 and two per cent, on the 'balance; apd. so on lessening in proportion to the extent of the estimated cost on.theproposed worjc. If employed by the ' day, 1 the charge would be three clear of all expenses. 11l i CHARGES. —dn furnishing designs and specifications with estimated cost, &e.,, for.cottage and villa resi- ' shop fronts,' warehouses, 1 banks, public 'buildings', 1 &c., &c.-, the charge would be from t fitye : to two and a.half per. cent., in proportion to the estimated cost ,of the proposed building. ;.. : . VALUATIONS, i ,'iHoiise arid landed property, agricultural machinery, tools and effects, railway plant, and every .'description of engineering and building material, plant, &C,, &c., valued on equally reasonable terras as above, T. M.; HARDY JOHNSTON, C.E., .Member of the Institution of Civil En- ; gineera, London. Chambers; j Hereford street, Christchurch.. 672 Business Notices

BEDS HOUSE FOR BOYS’ TWEED A --SUITS' AT 4s.' 6d. T ERDS HOUSEFOR MEN S’ PAGET i i COATS, BODED EDGES, AT i :i ! ißarlßd. f T HOUSE FOR MEN’S TWEED I i. TROUSERS AND VESTS, AT >«. i 12s. 6d. ' T EEDS HOUSE FOR MEN’S HEAVY -111 TWEED TROUSERS, AT Cs. Cd. Leeds house eor men’s ger- | -MAN TWEED TROUSERS, AT i ;10s. 6<L /. . ■ , -T EEDS HOUSE EOR MEN’S TWEED l. i SUITS, AT : 2q 3 . . - T EEDS HOUSE FOR STYLISH I J HATS. • . r. CASHEL STREET, W., (Nearly opposite the Press Office). CHRISTCHURCH.. 401

DAYIS’S Cheap URN ITURE AND B E'D DI N G m; |n¥fa ctory, : SiBEET, ASHBURTON. F TfjIVERY article Sold at' Christchurch ■J—* and, guaranteed best of materlaland workinansliip. XEBALg COMPLETELY FURNISHED p'A’v’ii;' BjOORE STREET, ASHBURTON, 702 Qa

-no -no: r ni;f YJ) BpOT'Alita 1 ’ ■Sdi'* IiAKER, 4 prices: 9331 , SX^^AsHpURTOIf,. , made to order, at reasonable lIDAKIBErFITZPATRICK.