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Table 3. — Return of Field-work executed by Staff and Contract Surveyors on Lands administered by other Departments from 1st April, 1917, to 31st March, 1918.

Land District. Rural. Cost per Acres. Acre. Village and Subi Cost per Acre. -ban. Town. Roads ;, &c. Cost per Mile. Acres. Native Land Survi Number of Subdivisions. iy. Mining. Other Work Cost Number Cost (Cost), per Acres. of per Acre. I Sections. Acre. Mining. Total Cost of Completed Work from 1st April, 1917, to 31st -March, 1918. Acres. Number of Sections. Acres. Number of Sections. Cost per Section. Miies. s. 4-72 s. s. 13200 13-25 £ 26-25 | d. 17-67 £ s. d. 415 14 3 £ s. d. 11,799 11 4 Auckland 195 0-50 1 149,153 1,265 Hawke's Bay Oil 1 181 -06 54,486 332 17-90 99 14 3 4,174 7 6 Taranaki 23,720 299 17-08 1,688 2 7 Wellington 0-90 4 143-75 30,780 204 21-21 2,749 2 4 Nelson Marlborough . . 651 11 16-69 .. 45 5 6 Westland Canterbury 1,127 73 73-00 342 16 3 Otago 123 7 45-62 I 23 7 7 Southland 28 2 5-7 669 6 29-15 89 6 0 I Means and totals 195 4-72 28 2 5-7 1-51 6 148-07 13-25 26-25 260,709 2,197 18-37 996-5 .515 8 6 20,911 19 1 Licensed surveyors (paid by applicants) 7,914 ! 562 23-00 12 10,772 94 12 I 2-75 Grand totals 8,109 .590 16-00 | 271,481 996-5 24-51 Is 2,291 12 ..