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RETURN of SURVEYS EXECUTED in the COLONY of NEW ZEALAND up to JULY, 1876.

Geographical and Standard Survey. Settlement and Section Survey. Districts. Total Area. Major Triangulation. Minor Triangulation. Bk wk. Spotting. \ Remarks. Circuit. Reliable. Unproven. Reliable. Unproven. Reliable. Unproven. Reliable. Unproven. ! Acres. Acres. Aores. Acres. Acres. Acres. i Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres. 2 1 Mechanically plotted only, but a large part reducible. 2 Untested either by minor triangulation or mathematically reduced traverse. a 4 s 6 7 & a Ditta 9 Generally Bpeaking, not ruled by minor triangulation nor mathematically reduced. 10 Untested. 11 Ditto. 12 Ditto, and unruled by minor triangulation. 13 Not ruled by minor triangulation. 14 The New Zealand Company's and other early block surveys, all separately accurate, have been closed by minor triangulation, while the spotting surveys have been re-surveyed and embodied in recent surveys. 15 Partly broken down to minor. 16 Subsequently closed (to major trig, points) to a considerable extent. Mechanically plotted till lately. Much of the Native land surveys must be classed as sketch or reconnaissance, being in rough inaccessible country, and for the most not executed for settlement purposes, but for extinguishment of Native title only. Canterbury (') 8,693,026 992,000 2,008,000 3 4 2,014,696 Marlborough ... 3,000,000 39,000 G 888,000 7 5,000 s Nelson 7,000,000 63,000 117,000 42,000 158,000 Westland 3,045,760 805,700 ... 54,000 9 Auckland (- 1) 17,000,000 60,000 2,500,000 10 30,000 Taranaki 2,137,000 12,000 n 30,000 130,000 12 Hawke's Bay ... ... ... ( 3) 3,050,000 320,000 ... ... 13 1,000,000 Wellington 7,000,000 3,500,000 3,000,000 1,446,954 14 30,000 Otago C) 16,140,000 13,240,000 680,000 15 5,800,000 2,103,000 16 800,000 Native and Confiscated Lands (5) 9,647,390 i 7,502,966 i I 67,065,786 13,240,000 14,633,090 9,864,000 2,430,000 3,670,964 11,167,966 896,000 3,207,696 (1) It ia not to be understood that all section surveys unproven are incorrect; only that, till submitted to the test of minor triangulation or major traverse circuit, which would be a very expensive and laborious undertaking, they cannot as a whole be considered reliable, and that in the above return their practical usefulness is not questioned, though in this report special work has been stated to be wrong. What have been stated as reliable are such as are governed either by minor triangulation or what are mathematically proved in themselves. 3 (21 & (3) This includes the work only under the Waste Land Boards. 14) Inoluding Southland. (5) Auckland, Wellington, and Hawke's Bay.