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Table 1a. —Return of Field-work executed by the Staff and Contract Surveyors from 1st April, 1912, to 31st March, 1913— continued. Nelson Land District.

Surveyor and District. Staff Surveyors. •J. D. Thomson, Hope, Gordon, &c. .. TopographiMinor ! cal Snrve -' Triangulations. ltor Selection Unsurveyed Land. Acres. U | Acres. «_. L°.J I ° d. | d. I i I -Rural. Town Section Survey. Native Land Survey. Roads, Railways, and Other Work. Water-races. Total Cost of Surveyor and Party from 1st April, 1912, to 31st March, 1013. Acres, j CD co O Acres.! oo ■§.§ j o O <o I o I fc Is a* .52 Acres. =c £ o Miles. £ Cost. ft i o Remarks. ] d. d. i " \ " s. 9,161 2-22! 2-22 j s. I d. £ 22-00 £ s. d. 49 18 2 £ s. d.i 1,337 0 7 I •• I 1-00 " Rural" is applications and Crown land. Rough broken country in heavy bush. " Other work " is inspections, cfec. £248 5s. carried forward to next year. Cadet assisting with second party. i Isolated applications and roads in rough broken country in heavy bush. £589 8s. 8d. carried forward to next year against the Gowan Block of 10,000 acres; nearly half completed in the field. 1 "Town survey" is workers' homes, City of Nelson. "Other work " is inspection surveys, £430 Is. 2d. ; office work, £64 ; absent owing to serious accident, £79 lis., c&c. £231 12s. 8d. carried forward to next year. i Road surveys consist mostly of repegging ; no plans required. " Other work " is standard survey of Murchison, 4J miles. £2,220 7s. 5d. carried forward to next year, representing some 24,000 acres practically complete in the field, cfec. A second party assisting under an unlicensed assistant. Rough broken country in heavy bush. £554 12s. 2d. carried forward to next year, representing rural surveys in Waitakere, Lewis, and Matiri Survey Districts, cfec. Tortuous road surveys in heavy bush intersecting small sections. " Other work " is prospecting for roads, repairing trig, stations, cfec. £557 lis. carried forward to next year, representing 20 miles of road survey, cfec. Applications, c&c, in high broken country in heavy bush. £1,428 15s. carried forward to next year, representing some 10,000 acres, complete in the field. This work carried out by Mr. J. H. Buttress, authorized assistant. Rough broken country in heavy bush. £426 2s. Id. carried forward to next year, representing 1,553 acres of rural land and 40,000 acres of triangulation nearly complete in field. This work carried out by Mr. F. H. Waters, authorized assistant. i H. Maitland, Aorere, Rotoroa, cfec. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2,100 6-00 3-5 28 . I 4-50 26-97 937 4 8 ji i I 585 12 2 i I i i I J. L. D'Arcy Irvine, Waimea, cfec. .. 34-57 •■ ! 865 12 10! I I \ ] I ! ! | : I 71 7 8 S. L. Fairhall. Howard, Tutaki, &c. .. I '' '' "' ■ " I ! 1,588 4 6 " i 12-30 5-50 i i * ! ■ | I 1 7 16 6 D. Nelson, Waitakere, Aorere, &c. .. \ ■ ■ ■ I I : - .... ft,. i 2.400 4-50 ..!..! I .. i .. ! 2,577 2-90 ! ■ 854 12 0 4-50 I • • i 1 -40 19-25 i i ! I W. D. Armit, Totaranui ! i I i I 27-00 35 10 0 760 9 0 i 6-20 2,708 1-35 3,388J 2-60 I I 1-75 15 2 8 i 695 11 0 ——- —, Motueka, Mount Arthur, cfec. 7,985 1-32 2,708 1-35 1 -321 31-1.4: I 1 I -I I ! : 1,159 3-57 1 i i , Totaranui, Oparara .. j I i : . . I 9 5 6 642 5 3 Temporary Staff. S. S. Springall, Otumahana, Waitakere I J i 4,791 3-80 t-2; 5 50-00 I I 1-00 57-00! 73 13 8 830 18 4 Applications, cfec, in rough broken country in heavy bush, on west coast. " Other work" consists of remeasniring the Karamea base and some alignment surveys in Westport. £320 4s. 9d. carried forward to next year.