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Surveys for Land-settlement for Year Ending 31st March, 1950

This table sets out the areas dealt with in each district for land-settlement purposesonly. It represents the actual area of land surveyed for this purpose and does not include land units settled which have not required survey.

Cost of Work Apportioned to Various Districts

It will be noted that the amount of work carried out by contract is approximately the same as last year. Again slightly more than 50 per cent, of the survey work in the Wellington district was carried out by contract surveyors. The services rendered by contract surveyors, which is much greater than is normally required, has materially assisted in coping with the land-settlement and housing-survey requirements of the Department. It has enabled the Department to divert staff to other urgent work required for general development operations such as land-settlement, State hydro-electric development, &c.

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Preliminary Pinal Land Humher of District. Chief Surveyor. Topographical Title TTnit.a Surveys. Surveys. U 111 to. Acres. Acres. % North Auckland and South Auckland T. S. Roe 23,725 8,291 71 Gisborne C. L. Cox 31,337 6,784 20 Hawke's Bay A. J. Wattie 4,609 7,626 59 Taranaki J. S. Strawbridge .. 1,611 712 6 Wellington W. G. Nelson 43,169 12,769 53 Marlborough J. C. Meale 3,615 21,616 14 Nelson J. W. Mclntyre 460 461 11 Westland E. M. Morilleau 462 1,967 3 Canterbury T. S. McMillan .. 2,836 19,330 45 Otago H. A. Adams 13,394 11,573 14 Southland H. M. Smith 3,188 2,446 9 : Totals 128,406 93,575 305 Totals— 1949 196,698 156,333 447 1948 227,631 98,492 305

District. By Staff Surveyors. By Contract Surveyors. Totals. Percentage. Number of Surveyors. Staff. | Contract. £ £ £ Head Office 8,462 8,462 110 2 North Auckland and 13,832 4,110 17,942 23-4 10 30 South Auckland Gisborne 2,218 46 2,264 3-0 2 1 Hawke's Bay 2,544 603 3,147 4-2 2 4 Taranaki 1,663 329 1,992 2-6 2 4 Wellington 7,645 8,721 16,366 21-4 7 14 Marlborough 2,053 1,932 3,985 5-2 1 3 Nelson 1,734 86 1,820 2-4 1 2 Westland 597 120 717 10 1 1 Canterbury 7,450 836 8,286 10-8 3 2 Otago 6,589 3,064 9,653 12-6 3 5 Southland 1,704 140 1,844 2-4 1 1 Last year .. 56,491 46,187 • 19,987 20,358 76,478 66,545 100-0 35 32 67 69