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Summarized Expenditure The following schedule sets out the salary expenditure for the year ending 31st March, 1946, apportioned to the various classes of work. The relative expenditures for the previous year are shown in parentheses:— General (Crown surveys, records, investigations, tracings, diagrams, £ s. d. £ s. d. and general office work) .. .. .. .. 58,879 6 7 (34,300 15 4) Triangulation .. .. .. .. .. .. 728 5 3 (882 1 11) Topographical mapping .. .. .. .. .. 14,659 15 3 (4,218 5 6) Standard traverses .. . . .. .. . - 185 9 4 (591 8 10) Survey maintenance (standard blocks and trig, signals) .. 281 17 5 (144 6 6) Precise levelling .. .. .. .. .. .. 43 1 2 (1,807 19 3) Inspection and investigation .. .. .. .. 772 19 9 (708 11 2) Town scheme plans (section 16, Land Act, 1924) .. .. 821 7 5 (464 15 4) Land settlement (topographical and schemes) .. .. 4,212 11 10 ■ (2,274 7 7) Tidal analysis .. .. .. .. .. .. 134 14 6 (295 15 2) Work for — Native Department .. .. .. .. .. 1,658 9 4 (1,450 9 1) Lands and Deeds Department .. .. .. .. 14,048 8 4 (9,863 15 6) Public Works Department .. .. .. .. 5,041 18 3 (4,439 6 4) Housing Department .. .. .. .. .. 2,660 0 4 (1,442 3 5) Other Departments .. .. .. .. .. 7,543 3 7 (31,349 0 1) Total .. .. .. .. ..£111,671 8 4 (£94,233 1 0) The sharp decline in the work done for other Departments is due to the transfer to departmental expenditure of the cost of topographical mapping, which prior to 31st March, 1945, was carried out for the Army Department. The total expenditure apportioned among the various Chief Surveyors' offices is as follows: —

Specialized Activities As already indicated, most of the activities under this heading have been held in abeyance. A brief statement of the present state of progress is given hereunder Triangulation GeodeUc TricmgwlMicm.—Arrangements have been made for the reloan of base-line-measuring equipment from the Tanganyika Government for the measurement of the three base-lines in the South Island and, the remeasurement of one of the North Island bases. The tapes are to be standardized at thf> National Physical Laboratory, Great Britain, to be available for use at the beginning of 1947.

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District. Expenditure. Percentage. £ s. d. Head Office 9,57110 1 8-6 Auckland and North Auckland.. 35,555 10 0 31-8 Gisborne 3,435 0 7 31 Hawke's Bay 8,378 14 9 7-5 Taranaki 4,758 1 0 4-3 Wellington 13,910 15 5 12-4 Marlborough 3,401 4 2 30 Nelson .. .. .. 5,095 18 0 4-6 Westland .. 1,307 10 6 1-2 Canterbury 12,000 17 7 10-7 Otago 6,339 1 7 5-7 Southland 7,917 4 8 71 Total 111,671 8 4 100