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Table 4. -Return showing Surveyors employed and the Work on Hand on 1st April, 1922.

Table 5. —Principal Classes of Office-work done from 1st April, 1921, to 31st March, 1922.

APPENDIX T. (a.) REPORT BY M, CROMPTON SMITH, CHIEF DRAUGHTSMAN. Head Office Draughting Branch. The state of the publication of maps gives cause for serious uneasiness, and the position has not improved since it was set out in the report for 1919-20. In that report the maps not drawn but required were set out, making a total of 1,250. The following is a statement of the maps which are drawn but which require attention and revision to make them serve their purpose : The survey district maps published number about 600 ; these should be republished (after revision) about every six years at an average rate of one hundred a year. The county maps published number 120 ; these should be republished (after revision) about every ten years, or, say, ten a year. General maps jrablished are about fifty, requiring revision and republication every ten years, or five per year. So that simply to keep existing publications going, republication is required at the rate of about 140 per year, or three per week. In addition there are the undrawn maps, 1,250, to be drawn and published. The rate of publication during last year has not been three per week, but about 0-86 per week, so that it is obvious that publication is far behind requirements. Improvements in the rate of production of map originals by use of improved methods requires a corresponding increase in the rate of publication, which is not under our control. During the year a number of the counties in the central part of the North Island were altered, resulting in the scrapping of the respective county maps and an immediate necessity for redrawing all seven. Data for doing so correctly exist only in the district offices, not in the Head Office ; but it seems probable that for some time no maps at all for the central counties may exist on the larger most-used scale of one mile to the inch ; patchwork substitutes may be possible, but of a very limited value. Future publications are designed to avoid the wholesale scrapping entailed by extensive alteration of local districts as above. One " city " class map, Lower Hutt and Petone, was completed during the year, two towns, and four cadastral sheets. Maps of the Samoan islands of Upolu and. Savaii were drawn for publication, and the new maps of Auckland and Christchurch have also been in preparation during the year, but are not sufficiently advanced for publication. The first sheet, comprising the central part of Auckland, however, will, I hope, be published about the end of 1922,

Sur veyors employed. Work on Hand. Names of Chief Surveyors. Staff. T r 6 aT" | C0ntract ' Native t, ,„ Blocks, R ™ ,l9 > | Ac. *°- Acres. Miles. 4-25 1,100 j 119-00 47,163 ; 5,356 6-50 116,126 17-50 1,362 44-00 2-00 326 .12-00 Triangulation. District. Settlement. Towns. Standard Traverse. I R. P. Greville .. 4 H. M. Skeet .. 15 W. P. Marsh .. 2 H. J. Lowe .. 3 G. H. M. McClure 4 J.Cook .. 2 H. I). McKcllar .. 1 R. S, Galbraith .. 2 (I. II. Bullanl .. I R. T. Sadd .. 2 T. Brook .. 1 1 1 N. Auckland Auckland . . Hawke's Bay Taranaki Wellington . . Marlborough Nelson Westland . . Canterbury. . Otago Southland .. Acres. 23,791 75,028 Acres. 3-50 Sq. Miles. Miles. 3 7 9 1 38,842 2,915 100,000 4,825 2,904 400 102,225 74,000 96-00 150 2-00 1 4-00 50-00 14-00 1,075 0-75 6 Totals .. 37 2 j 21 484,930 172,508 200-00 103-50 156 0600 I •

District. Plans placed on Instrument m'S of Title. 11 Oft § i i i §§ il 1 i il J rf * J ll Maps drawn for v- § „ Lithography. «, ="§ If? ■gs * if Lithographs sold. i North Auckland .. Auckland Hawke's Bay Taranaki Wellington Marlborough Nelson Westland Canterbury Otago Southland 844 1,104 ! 498 .. 1,083 3,268* 1,983 7,54( 184 2,494 1,244 1,20* 369 2,121 1,190 2,711 .. 1,212 6,202 , 936 3,16f 137 374 | 74 10t 227 864 .. 29S 368 169 i 15 380 4,530 100 2,46f 474 1,604 57 75( 86 1,096 160 454 1,104 i 498 3,268* 1,983 2,494 1,244 2,121 1,190 6,202 , 936 374 | 74 864 169 i 15 4,530 : 100 1,604 57 1,090 160 7,546* 1,208 2,710 3,165 105 298 880 1,455 444 300 841 95 167 67 477 206 103 864 io 7 2 2 5 66 87 9 Hi 36 5 43 4 24 25 17 £ s. d. 85 18 8 198 1 7 17 8 2 91 14 4 11 10 9 48 14 3 60 14 0 23 7 0 131 14 0 47 2 8 2,466 750 454 383 415 240 U 2t 2,104 Totals .. 5,364 23,826 ; 6,257 18,702 5,035 1,9] 5,364 23,826 ! 6,257 18,702 5,035 1,912 32 326 2,104 710 5 5 * These figures include a North Auckland land-transfer quota. t So.ised. ■en rcvi