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2 I enclose for your Lordship's information, copies of the speech that I subsequently delivered the same day, together with copies of the Addresses in Reply from the Legislative Council and House of Representatives. F J I have, &c, PLUNKET, Governor. To the Earl of Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Enclosures. [See Journals of House of Representatives, 1909.]

No. 17. New Zealand, No. 63- HoUBe Wellington , l7th June, 1909. Inform LoTJship that my Prime Minister has requested that a further T iTZeI Council of the Surveyors' InstjSySt T I enclose a copy of a memorandum from Sir Joseph Ward dealing with ,hi 9 matter l JAMES PRENDERGAST, Deputy Governor. To the Earl of Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Enclosure. Wellington, 14th June, 1909. Hi. Excellency the Governor * ~P^^^^^ tarv of State for the Colonies that in the ]*™$J^^?\ h 3 .< C*v*l*y* *™ 7 grett Council of Surveyors in England appears; °^^ d^tl v fn Australasia and Canada." stress on co-ordinate surveying, which sub ect is treated I g > &a _ It is in order to remove an erroneous opinion nave re spectfully ask that land practice that the Government of the Domin on oNe* of the Institute the Right Honourable the Secretary ot Jd has not been treated lightly of Surveyors its assurance that «»- fCknother that New Zealand prides itself upon, in New Zealand." .If there - one act haB bee n the strong point of the it is the fact that since 1878 S triangulation has been carried over New Zealand survey system. Since 1878 » ™jor an< ™ fl accurately measured bases, and the greater part of New Zealand subtended horn calculated "The section surveyors on the true meridian, the co-ordinates of each sa to ,n J and from BUch meridian then use the co-ordinates of the trig™"*"*n!£^. supphed then., and perpendicular distances compute the co-ordinates o| ««J ? g meridional circuit. Ihe safe? rATt«a^X"» sjrusipTii si x "2 for •• .. S ." i. reduced lo under » link to . m.le. ; & Prime Minister.