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TABLE No. 48.—RETURN of Field-work executed by the Staff and Contract Surveyors, from 1st April, 1896, to 31st March, 1897. LAND DISTRICT OF AUCKLAND.

Note.—Gold-mining surveys are now paid for by the Warden.

LAND DISTRICT OF HAWKE'S BAY.

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Topograpl Selection be under the hical for ifore Survey Land Act. Gold-mining Survey. Roads, Bailways, and Water-races. Detention by Native Opposition or other Causes. Total Cost Other Work. o f Surveyor and Party ' from 1st April, 1896, to Cost. 3lBt March, 1887. Mino] ■ Trii ai •aphi mgulation id ical Survey. »ural and Sub u-ban. 'own Section Survey. Natr 'e Land Coi irt Survey. Topog. Surveyor and District. Remarks. 8" Acres, to o 8 < Acres. Total Cost. Acres. $i U 4 \ oS -g.@ Total Cost. Acres. 6-s 8* Total Cost. 00 Acres. 0 Pi q> « g Total- Cost. 5* ! 3 Cost per Total Cost. Mile. Coat. Acres. Total Cost. Total Cost. Staff Surveyors. L. Cussen. Wa'ikato, Hauraki J.Baber, jun. Tauranga, &c. G. A. Martin. Whangarei, &c. J. I. Philips. Auckland, &c. H. D. M. Haszard. Wairoa, Ohinemuri A. H. Vickerman. Kawhia, &o. T. K. Thompson. Mangonui R. S. Galbraith. Rotorua, &c. A. B. Wright. Road Surveyor 200,000 d. 0-24 £ s. d. 204 18 10 d. £ s. d. 25 765 13,554 5,137 2,186 384 265 3 6 120 56 10 7 3 600 1-78 1-18 1-80 1-75 4-00 2-72 £ s. d. 7 10 0 68 0 0 800 0 0 466 2 1 191 2 0 76 16 0 36 2 0 2 300 450 s. 50-00 17-80 £ s. d 5 0 0 400 18 11 168,000 1,930 11 1 d. 0-29 6-46 £ s. d. 204 18 7 52"o 0 3,800 2,100 65 21 1-44 1-39 £ s. a. 273 11 0 145 19 6 7-00 8-025 4-00 9-50 £ 12-00 10-00 9-41 21-52 £ s. a. 84 0 0 86 5 0 37 13 0 204 10 0 £ B, d. 26C 7 0 5 "0 0 £ s. d. 166 2 0 33 0 0 TS"8 7 105 11 9 £ s. d. 1,112 0 0 578 0 0 948 0 0 297 0 0 813 0 0 790 0 0 759 0 0 787 0 0 180 0 0 Inspection surveys and resurveys. Open. All forest. Resurveys; attending Native Land Courb. Left the service 30tli June. Forest. 24-00 30-00 11-75 600 282 0 0 180 0 0 20 'o 0 All heavy forest. Forest. Engineering surveys only. Temporary Staff. W. C. Spencer. Coromandel, Ac. H. A. WamSr. Whangape, &o. J.B.Thompson. Opuawhanga, &c. B.P.Turner. Awaroa A. Wilaon. Maungaru, &c. .. A. J. Mountfort. Auckland, &c. 18,000 0-33 25 0 0 302 4,822 7,575 4,979 9,611 3,729 3 30 37 12 26 i 2-71 1-93 1-54 1-80 1-54 0-43 41 0 0 466 7 8 583 5 6 448 1 5 740 8 4 80 3 5 5,330 11 6-48 144 0 0 28-25 2-75 11-14 15-80 314 17 0 43 9 0 10 0 0 7 13 0 91 0 0 26 15 4 619 0 0 649 0 0 732 0 0 633 0 0 767 0 0 494 0 0 All forest; broken country. Broken forest. Mostly broken forest land. 11-50 4-25 6-375 16-18 8-94 19-29 186 3 10 38 0 0 123 0 0 Heavy forest. 3,729 acres forest reserve, left unfinished by Mr. Philips. Heavy forest. A. J. Paterson A. A. Seaton. Tokatoka, &c. .. E. W. Laeeron. Hunua, &c. .. D. H. Lusk, Ohinemuri, &c. 46 0 0 216 0 0 164 0 0 226 0 0 Open country. Very heavy broken forest land. 1,280 4,930 "6 4 1-56 0-91 100 0 0 225 10 0 4,330 8 5 452 17-96 405 18 11 175,260 23 0-55 400 18 7 5,900 86 1-42 419 10 6 136-25 11-59 1,579 17 10 271 7 0 533 10 8 10,810 0 0, Means and totals 218,000 0-25 229 18 10 59,544 327 1-45 302 Land-purchase survey. Authorised Surveyors. E. F. Adams. Thames W. Aitken .. P. Bedlington R. Campbell. Kaeo .. P. E. Cheal. Whitianga O. M. Creagh W. Cussen . ■ E. de C. Drury. Pirongia W. H. Dunnage. Tauranga .. E. Fairburn. Awaroa 866 200 550 2 "2 3 1-53 3-00 2-50 66 10 0 30 0 0 68 15 0 119 742 2 43-56 14-99 21 12 0 46 7 0 1,979 0 0| 42 0 0 35 0 0 121 0 0 11 0 0 4,247 0 0 Open and forest. Open. Mining District Land Occupation Act. A. L. Foster. Whakatane E. Frissell. Kawhia.. W. A. Graham. Opuatia 369 1,235 1,696 300 7 4 2 1 2-44 1-58 1-32 2-00 45 0 0 98 1 2 111 12 11 30 0 0 50 3,022 4,382 1 1 33 42-00 1000 26-62 8 15 0 125 19 2 486 1 10 313 1 2-47 38 16 0 182 0 0 Unsurveyed : Forest and open. „ Open. „ Forest and open. Native Land Court survey paid for privately. Forest: Unsurvoyed, and coal-mining lease. „ Native Land Court survey paid for privately. Open and forest. Under Part II., Native Land Act, 1894. Private association. Very broken forest. Forest: Land-purchase survey. Open anrl forest. Papamoa No. 2 Special Settlement. Open. J. Hannah. Waipu J.W.Harrison. Coromandel.. R. C. Jordan. Tauranga W.F.Hammond. Kaipara .. A. M. Kelly. Whitianga N.Kenny. Ohinemuri H. Mitchell. Rotorua, &o. .. A. B. Morrow. Great Barrier K. Neumann. Waoku, &c. .. W. C. O'Neill. Mangonui J. K. Patrick. Whangaruru .. J. I. Philips. Great Barrier .. J. Reilly. Coromandel L. Simpson. Matata J. W. Stewart H. M. Wilson. Opuawhanga Gold-mining surveyors 1,436 6 1-71 123 0 0 2,124 3 14-95 132 7 0 65 0 0 40 0 0 10 0 0 2,290 785 70 250 883 376 1,136 3,005 16 4 2 5 4 1 9 24 2-66 M8 4-21 3-50 2-12 1-66 2-72 3-28 305 9 5 46 7 1 14 15 0 43 15 0 93 9 0 31 6 8 154 18 0 492 17 5 24,050 26 1-89 190* 0 0 1,117' 0 0 Forest: Land purchase and private payment. 823 9 618 4 1 2-08 1-33 2-72 85 16 3 6 0 0 84 5 0 528 "l 22-01 48 8 7 179 0 0 484 0 0! 38 0 0 18 0 0 Forest and open. Open : Contract survey. Open and forest. Broken forest. Mining District Land Occupation Act. Open and forest: Unsurveyed. 3^615 1-83 330 1 7 217 0 0 77 0 0 Broken forest. Hauraki Goldfields, by forty-nine authorised surveyors. 15 167,039 2,040 5-59 46,700 12 9 Means and totals 20,512 111 2-20 2,261 19 6 35,017 67 7-21 1,059 10 7 167,35! 2,041 5-58 46,739 8 9 8,862 0 0 Grand means and totals 218,000 0-25 229 18 10 80,056 445 1-65 6,592 7 11 802 452 1796 405 18 1 210,277 90 1 -r; 1,460 9 2 173,252 2,127 5-44 47,158 19 3 1.-I6-K 11-59 1,579 17 10 271 7 0 533 10 8 19,672 0 0

Staff Surveyors. E. C. Gold-Smith. Poverty Bay 522 0 0] District Surveyor and Land Officer; appointed Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Crown Lands, Hawke's Bay, 1st January, 1897. Transferred to Napier. "Other work," field inspection, &o. Forest country. " Other work " checks, surveying bush-clearing on improved-farm settlements, repegging roadlines for fencing, &c, inspeotion of roads giving aocesa to blocks, &c.; cadet assisting. Open country. " Other work " represents exploring, grading, &c, Rotorua-Gisborne Road; inspection of road-lines, &c. James Hay. Hawke's Bay .. 2,096 2/7-3 269 9 6 7-5 36-65 274 17 2 305 11 6 I 845 0 0 J. Mouat. Waipiro, Hangaroa 11-735. 34 4 3 14 4 0 11-1 160 18 9 459 13 8 629 0 0 44 6-458. 14-5 700 Temporary Staff. J. Roddick. Poverty Bay and Hawke's Bay J. Stevenson. Poverty Bay and Hawke s Bay 712 1-67 59 7 0 184 38 14 0 37,207 1-85 283 9 2 14-5 212 0 2 40 15 6 587 0 0 Open and forest country. " Other work " represents cost of sub-division-survey, Tahora No. 2 Block. Forest country. " Other work " represents exploring NorsewoodTe Apiti Road, and surveying Forest Reserve, Norsewood, for settlement, which is not yet completed. 27 -38 42 14-62 25,000 1-2 126 13 2 1,200 1 10- Id. 50 9 3 177 13 2 519 0 0 Contract Surveyors— G. Clayton .. ■■ •• Richardson, Eeardon, and Co. (Limited) G. J. Winter 114 0 0 107 0 0 156 0 0 Means and totala 413 10 0 33 42 18-4 38 14 0 37,251 1-91 297 13 2 36-62 17-6 647 16 1 983 13 10 3,479 0 0 25,000 1-2 126 13 ■ 2 4,708 3fl 1-75