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Table 39.— Showing Surveyors employed and the Work on Hand on 1st April, 1897.

Table 40. —Crown Grants, Certificates of Title, Leases, and other Instruments of Title from the Crown prepared or examined from 1st April, 1896, to 31st March, 1897.

Table 41. —Plans placed on Crown Grants and other Instruments of Title from the Crown from 1st April, 1896, to 31st March, 1897.

Table 42. —Work done under the Land Transfer Act, &c, from 1st April, 1896, to 31st March, 1897.

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Surveyors employed. Wor] on Hand. Chief Surveyors. Staff. Temporary. District. Trig. Settlement. Native Eoads, T Blocks, &c. &c. ■ rown - Mining and Mineral Leases. G. Mueller E. Gold-Smith .. J. Strauchon J. W. A. Marohant T. Humphries C. W. Adams W. G. Murray .. S. Weetman J. Hay .. D. Barron 8 t 8 5 2 8 3 6 1 9 3 5 5 Auckland Hawke's Bay Taranaki Wellington .. Nelson Marlborough Westland Canterbury .. Otago Southland .. Sq. Mis. 830 199 750 120 1,230 Acres. 114,623 41,514 81,000 209,942 5,510 81,850 9,545 188,218 23,835 19,230 Acres. 800 155,794 102,987 1,600 3,544 3,660 Miles. 89 40 28 141 24 42 37 Acres. 182 350 331 28 Acres. 35,000 6 5,635 1 3 60,110 2 216 Road Surveyors B. H. Reaney C. W. Hursthouse (in charge of Road 3 2 Districts). Kotorua North Island (central) Wanganui .. 86 19 G. T. Murray 50 Totals 46 37 3,129 775,267 328,495 558 891 40,851

Number. District. Cost. Singly. j In Duplicate, i In Triplicate. Total Copies. Auckland .. Hawke's Bay Taranaki .. Wellington Nelson Marlborough Westland Canterbury Otago Southland .. 6 18 25 89 3 38 4 31 36 29 160 32 518 130 121 1,099 59 17 7 190 582 106 1,732 390 375 3,391 210 113 93 628 2,066 387 £ s. d. 97 0 0 31 0 0 30 19 0 140 0 0 11 0 0 16 14 0 22 0 0 35 0 0 34 10 6 40 0 0 5 Totals 54 422 2,829 "i 9,385 458 3 6

Number. District. Singly. numDer. In Duplicate. In Triplicate. Total Copies. Cost. Auckland .. Hawke's Bay Taranaki .. Wellington Nelson Maryborough Westland .. Canterbury Otago Southland .. Totals •■ I 31 3 7 807 9 '2 99 21 979 164 338 5 38 55 7 34 29 640 32 577 654 92 697 607 43 7 203 352 172 2,090 2,641 293 2,974 1,940 143 89 669 2,435 601 & s. d. 200 0 0 65 5 0 81 15 0 123 12 0 184 9 6 46 7 9 11 10 3 90 1 10 130 12 6 96 0 0 1,342 3,404 13,875 1,029 13 10

District. Deeds No. of and Plans other Inpassed.I struments 1 passed. No. of Plans placed on Certificates of Title. Miscellaneous Plans, &c. Cost. Singly. In Duplicate. In Triplicate. luokland lawke's Bay 'aranaki Vellington .. Poison larlborough Vestland !anterbury .. )tago louthland 180 89 854 247 17 6 98 227 44 56 1,304 ] ,865 89 663 102 21 257 1,429 100 31 19 1,007 1,868 301 "74 10 2 23 2 £ s. A. 389 0 0 203 1 5 256 8 4 675 12 0 108 15 0 9 19 1 20 9 10 746 7 0 257 7 6 149 0 0 799 2,835 1 1,887 16 22 133 11 24 Totals .. 1,818 6,392 2,103 5,033 256 61 2,816 0 2