FOUR-MILE ERROR
CHART OF THREE KINGS SOUTH ISLAND NOT WHERE THOUGHT TO BE Press Association MART ON, Friday. In reference to a message from Auckland stating that a retired survey officer had exposed a mistake of four miles in the Admiralty charted position of the Three Kings Islands, Mr. A. C. M. Sieely, surveyor at Marton, states that when he was making surveys of the South Island in 1911 wicli Mr. J. A. Robertson, then Government surveyor, the latter informed him that he had discovered an error of four miles in the Admiralty charts relating to the southern coast of the South Island. Mr. Sieely believes that Mr. Robertson’s survey maps showing the error are still available from relatives of deceased in Dannevirke.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 460, 15 September 1928, Page 12
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123FOUR-MILE ERROR Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 460, 15 September 1928, Page 12
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