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Table 4. —Return showing Surveyors employed and the Work on Hand on 1st April, 1915.

Table 5. —Work done under the Land Transfer Act, etc., from the 1st April, 1914, to the 31st March, 1915.

APPENDIX lII.—WELLINGTON CITY TKIANGULATION. Durinc the year Mr. J. D. Climie, Inspector of Surveys, completed a small triangulation survey coverm" the City of Wellington, the primary purpose of which was to connect Mount Cook Initial Station, the origin of latitude and longitude for New Zealand, with the Dominion Astronomical Observatory known as the Hector Observatory. Advantage was taken of this work to tie together the earlier determination of meridian and standards of length, so as to provide reliable facts to enable comparisons of old and new surveywork to be made in future work when required, and also to form the connecting-link between the new secondary triangulation and the observatory and initial and city and suburban standard surveys. Mr. Climie has done this work most thoroughly, and has ascertained and brought together in a form convenient for record and reference a quantity of data which have hitherto been' scattered through many separate records. Copies of his report and plan follow. Triangulation etc., in connection, with the Mount Cook, Hector, and Wellington Observatories. # lam handing in herewith a plan, 30 in. by 30 in., showing'the observations I have made to connect the new observatory (Hector Observatory) at Kelburn with the Mount Cook Initial Station, also the connection with the old Wellington Observatory together with the connections with the standard survey. There is shown on the drawing the work done by Messrs. McKerrow and Marchant in 1877, and that by Mr. C. W. Adams in 1883. Altogether there are fourteen diagrams (drawn to various scales) in explanation of all the work that has been done in determining the true meridians at Mount Cook and Wellington Observatories. I have taken'much trouble in obtaining all the data that are available at this and the District Office, so that the plan should be a reliable record for easy reference in the future.

Chief Surveyors. Surveyors employed. Staff. T r™iy°~ Contract. iary. Land District. Trig. Work on Hand. Native Land Survey. Settlement. Town. Roads. H. M. Skeet W. H. Skinner .. G. H. Bullard .. T. N. Brodrick .. P. A. Thompson .. H. G. Price IT. D. M. Haszard C. R. Pollon R. T. Sadd G. H. M. MeClure 15 8 54 9 1 4 .. 6 4 4 2 2 1 2 2 1.. 4 3 Auckland Hawko's Bay Taranaki Wellington .. Nelson Marlborough Westland Canterbury .. Otago Southland .. Sq. Mis. Acres. 304,801 106,090 50,034 26,670 115,640 7,645 2,190 47,300 651,100 16,799 Acres. 101-0 0-1 258-0 Acres. 390,275 113,141 64,923 72,872 Miles. 247-5 22-21 230 42 io 41-0 V-0 . Total staff surveyors 47 13 02 47 13 62 42 1,334,869 360-1 641,211 340-75

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