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Mining Stirveys maae by Private Surveyors for Fees deposited by the Applicants. John Edie John Cumine L. D. Macgeorge L. O. Beal John Spence N. M. Kirkcaldy T. C. Dennison .. • • •• •• .. - - •• •• 786 412 212 185 116 100 30 29 504 11 5-71 4 3-46 6 3-86 1 3-36 1 4-50 1 7-10 •• •• Total .. 53 4-79 -• 1,841 Staff. L. 0. Mathias (District Surveyor). Waiau and Longwood L. ND '1ST! ,ICT iF SOUTHLAND. A. Hodgkinson (Assistant Surveyor). Longwood, Waiau, and Jacob's River Temporary. T. G. Lillieorona. Rowallan 2,955 3,605 10 0-02 2-70 •■ 299 5 11 448 6 11 299 5 1, 854 14 6 75 11 6 Report on triangulation. Provisional survey of 3,000 acres, Block XIII., Waiau; forest oountry ; work in hand. Transferred from Canterbury in October. Blocks XVII. and XIX., Longwood. " Other work" represents provisional survey of 6,700 acres in Block XIV., Waiau; forest country; work in hand. Also tramway reserve and partial survey of islands in Waiau River. Blocks I. and V., Rowallan; forest country. Left the Department in June. Blook for landless Natives; forest country; field-work completed, 116 sections, 31,000 acres. Work much retarded by constant rain. Cost to date, £2,714 17s. 9d. Sawmill-areas under fee system. Suburban sections, Town of Gore. Includes 4 acres coal-lease area, fee system. Fee system, 9 sections represent sawmillareas. Fee system, special claims. C. Otway. Waitutu 896 10 8 896 10 8 Authorised. T. S. Miller. Oteramika, Longwood J. Blaikie. Gore, Wendon Waikaia, Chatton H. R. Dundas. Jacob's River ■• 1,150 12 6 1 1-70 11-50 ■■ - •• " 282 5 4-7 •• •• 99 1 3 1,651 12 2-20 74' 0 0 .. Oteramika, Longwood, Paterson .. 10 1 41-1 199 4 0 ■• •• •• Means and totals 9,373 31 1-63 292 6 60 1,644 2 8 2,498 7 0 •• .- •• •■ •• •• •• ••