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Table 1.—RETURN of Field-work executed by the Staff and Contract Surveyors, from 1st April, 1907, to 31st March, 1908— continued.

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Minor Triangulatiou and Topographical Survey Rural and Suburban. Town Section Surrey. Native Land Survey. Gold-mining Survey. Roads, Bailways, and Water-racec Other Work. Total Coit of Surveyor aud Party from 1st April, 1907, to SlBt March. 1908. Surveyor and District. fa Acres. - £ c< — 4 p ~5i ! if" Acres, o i gf d l| Acres. . c | do U 'A •g g Acres. No. of Sections. Id o 3 3 Cost Cost. Remark*. la: D DISTRICT IT OP OTAGO — continu id. Temporary Staff. D. MaopherRon. Lee Stream 4-49 8. 8. ( d. 8. £ s. d. £ s. d. 80 2 7 •24,401 ■2-5 1514 Topographical, subdivision of Run 186 into six S.G. runs ; all boundaries traversed. Transferred to Invercargill early in year. Include* settlement blocks in Blackstone, St. Bathans, and Taumaca Settlements, in Tautuku District. Six weeks were lost by bad weather. Transferred to Nelson in January. C. W. MoFarland. Blackatone, St. Bathans, Tautuku, and Poma haka 5,514 34l 2-47 544 0 al . I Licensed Surveyors. O. Mackenzie. Kawarau and Lorn L. D. Macgeorge 28 2 434, 10 5-93 3-76 a'-oo "i 4-001 •• 3-25 9-23 11 14 8 20 0 8 119 3 4 Small surveys for fees deposited by applicants. Road-survey as per arrangement. •• Means and totals .. 56,521 30-25 7-19 2-29 37,326J 184 1-31J 7-5 16 6162 •• 130 6 21 3,050 6 2 I * Topographical survey. Licensei surveyors (] iaid for Gi iy applicani tnd total i) 1,840 44 .. 1,840 44 Staff Surveyors. C. Otway. Blocks VI and XI, Alton District D. Macpherson. Waiau, Forest Hill, Hokonui. Takitimo, &c. ID DJ ,st: ;ICT OP SOUTHLAND. iF SOUTHLAND. 42 1 4 877 13 4 All bush country ; flat, undulating, and partly broken, 10,000 aores. Cost of triangulation covers chainage of baseline. Partly bush. •• " •■ •• •• 14,852 1-28 1-28) O-β 1 118-00 •ill 23-8 262 17 7 706 6 6 Temporary Staff. N. L. Palkiner. Invercargill Hundred 6,763 . 204 16 3 0 917 9 4 Plat country ; old sawmill workings. " Other work " includes cost of unfinished work. Licensed Surveyors. J. Blaikie H. R. Dundas T. S. Miller 388 2,412 910 3 16 6 1-92 198 1-99 400 12600 Sawmill areas. Fees deposited by applicants. Mostly sawmill areas. Paid for by fees deposited by applicants. 1 •• •• .. •• ■■ •• .. • ■ .. . . .. .. -. 14,852 1-28 2-14 23 8 Means and totals 10,4731 61 202 4-5 12200 •• .. .. .. 321 Ill 2,501 9 2 Licensed surveyors (paid for by applicants) Grand total 286 4 286 4