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Table 36. — RETURN of Field-work executed by the Staff and Contract Surveyors, from 1st April, 1902, to 31st March, 1903— continued.

Minor Triangulation aud Topographical Survey. Rural and Suburban. Town Section Survey. Native Land Court Survey. Roads, Rail-Gold-mining Surveys. ways, and Water-races. I Total Cost Other Work. of Surveyor and Party from ! 1st April, 1903, to 31st March, Cost. 1903. Remarks. Surveyor and District. og g,9 Acres. --3 „ 5 03 O Acres. *-q -g 3 OO o 9 . a 9 Acres. 43 '-t Acres, o % -^3 d3 So 7Z °ji Acres No - of I* Acres. gections . || — Cost per *Mile. LAND DI! 'RIG of ne: 1 LS0N. 1 1 Staff Surveyors. 3. A. Montgomeiie. Mawhcra-iti, &c. R. T. Sadd. Tadmor, Gordon, &c. J. Snodgrass. Kawatiri, &e. J. D. Thomson. Rintoul, Motueka, Kaiteriteii, &c. A. G. Muir. Inangahua E. C. Robinson. Tutaki a. s. 2-59 s. d. s. £ £ s. d. 785 7 10 £ s. d. 937 1 2; 1,169 19 1,768 1,717 7,615 6 30 1-30 4-76 1-58 Hi 9-64 534 11 3 407 8 10 88 11 0 990 1 3 816 12 2 928 19 0 10,500 acres selection survey. 12,000 acres selection survey. 72 6 0 121 9 0 72 6 0 121 9 0 This officer was transferred to Westland. Mr. Robinson left to join the Roads Department at Wellington. Partly sectional survevs at Mokihinui; unfinished and topo. surveys in rough timbered country. 26,500 acres selection survey. Work all in very rough country ; heavily timbered. The total cost of this was £456 18s. 8d., £186 19s. 8d. of which was incurred last year. 11,000 acres selection survey. Very broken country; heavily timbered. 26,400 acres selection survey. Ditto. W. McAlister. Mokihinui and Orikaka 578 15 2! 812 8 2J D. M. Wilson. Tutaki, &c. 32,000 0-24 2,022j 16 2-35 35 7-71 83 2 10J 813 7 0 T. W. Hughes. Brighton 220 8 6 J. Spence. Kongahu T. H. Galbraith. Oparara D. Macpherson. Oiumahana E. H. Beere. Matiri J. Cumine. Matiri and Hope ■• •■ •• ! i ■• •• .. ■• I • 142 8 1 186 2 1 92 13 7 209 18 0 140 19 4 142 8 1 186 2 1 92 13 7 209 18 0 140 19 4 - Means and totals 32,000 0-24 14,291 103 2-12 —I I 46£ 819 3,443 8 0 6,484 8 4 .. Authorised Surveyors. F.J. Ledger. Mt. Arthur J.B.Saxon. Tutaki, &c. W. F. Robinson. Orikaka, <feo. .. J. W. Spence. Mawuera-iti G. G. Sandison. Waitapu •• 912 o 1-09 •• •• 128 . 118 30 50 J! 6 In rough mountainous countrv ; timbered. Six sections paid for out of deposits. Total cost, £116 7s. 6d. ■• 7-13 46£ 8-19 3,443 8 0 6,484 8 4 Means and totals .. 0-24 15,203 105 206 326 Office fees, £42 lis. 6d. 32,000 • • -. -• ..