APPENDIX III. RETURN of FIELD WORK EXECUTED by STAFF and CONTRACT SUEVEYORS in the COLONY of NEW ZEALAND, from 1st January, 1877, to 30th June, 1877.
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Mint Triangit withe Topogri >r tation tut iphy. Topograj ana Trigononn Surve >hical I 1 etrical >y. Rural Sect md Subi ion Surv urban -ey. Town Sect: Survey. ion Nativ< 3 Land C< Surveys. Native Land Purchase Surveys. Detent by Native Opp or other < ion osition ause. Other Work. -si C O a gj 1 K Total cost of Total cost of Revision Si -eys. Field Work Office Work Provincial District. for Eemarks. Chief Surveyor. Acres. Cost per Acre. Acres. Cost per Acre. Acres. Cost per Acre. Acres. Average size. Cost per Acre. Acres. No. of Allotments. Cost per AUotment. Acres. Average size blocks. Cost per Acre. Acres. Average size ■blocks. Cost per acre. Time. Cost. Nature of Duty. period. and Inspection for poriod. Acres. Acres. Acres. Auckland S. P. Smith 19,000 ljd. 540,037 Id. 29,392 476 137,392 V* £ 200 Eoad surveys; examining Native Land Court surveys. £ 697 £ s. d. 7,547 14 7 £ s. d. 1,016 3 4 1,8 49,797 lOd. 100,000 acres block surveys in progress. £141 7s. 7d. paid on account of work entered in last year's return. Generally bush country. In progress, 1,000,000 acres major triangulation ; 250,000 acres minor and topographical survey; 68,500 acres section survey; and 5,000 acres Native Land Court survey. Taranaki T. Humphries .. Native reserves, river traverses, &c. 5,760 9Jd. 22,457 340 1/1* 7 weeks 79 770 3,357 1 10 667 0 2 All bush country. 11,300 acres Native block surveys in progress. Hawke's Bay H. Baker 12,674 189 10|d. 21 miles road traverse, and trig, connections. 241 1,171 16 1 733 3 8 Besides this, 1,322 acres rural lands surveyed and not mapped. In progress, 100,000 acres minor triangulation, and 2,000 acres rural land survey. Eoads laid out to only part of the areas surveyed into sections. Wellington (Crown lands) H. Jackson 12,075 (average size, 124 acres). lljd. 45,850 252 7Jd. 15 miles traverse, and office work. 4,431 5 8 1,295 16 2 Two-thirds bush, one-third open country. Eoads laid out to only part of the areas surveyed into sections for settlement. 348 ,, (Native lands) G. W. Williams.. 12,439 5id. 237 Office work 190 1,861 16 6 513 13 4 136,000 acres reconnaissance survey completed but not mapped ; 25,000 acres section survey nearly completed, commenced in 1875. Marlborough H. Clarke 577 Traversing tracks 166 0 6 461 14 2 Isolated surveys 48 2/10 82 Nelson J. S. Browning .. 4,128 117,062 105 3/7 22 80 4/9 Topographical traverses, 48| miles, at 1/6 per chain. 292J 3,861 17 6 1,057 4 0 Two surveyors on standard work; seven on gold-fields. 2,856 acres rural lands surveyed but not mapped. All spotting surveys. Westland G. Mueller .. 5,462 Mining water-race, road | surveys, (fee. .. j Topographical survey,) 6,958 acres, at 3Jd. [ per acre .. ..) Office plotting Trig. 1 stations.Ee-chaining I base lines .. .. ) 2,149 16 8 1,385 4 0 1,9 1,3361 101 j f All within gold-field ; mostly rough bush ( country. Canterbury J. H. Baker 1,398 100,000 lfd. 34,686 88 2/6J 61 243 8/10 280 6,767 6 3 2,273 7 9 Besides this, 31,229 acres rural lands surveyed but not mapped. Otago W. Arthur 189,197 2d. 71,348 114 i/oA 337 335 8/1* Water-races, reports to Wardens, mining areas, school-sites. 523 5,475 7 6 1,835 17 0 Six surveyors on gold-fields, where surveys very scattered and costly. Southland John Spence 26,006 12j ltd. 39,239 Eoad traverse 3,637 3 8 795 12 0 13,000 acres section survey, Stewart Island and elsewhere, partially completed; besides 5,000 acres of work dona entirely in bush. 168 1,3 21 82 15 179 Totals and Averages.. 13,473 23,128 3Jd. 861,000 IfW278,747 145 1/5 441 740 15/0f 137,392 1/4 62,236 8Jd. 516 £ 5,039 40,427 6 9 12,034 15 7
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