CORRESPONDENCE.

Bay of Plenty Times, 20 March 1890, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

.[The Editor is affording ' ! §iM*' : reasonable facility for the 3iaßii«sirtn ?>f flifflfi subjects, but it must be distinctly undented! that he is in no way responsible for $c opinions expressed by correspondents.] ' . " ."' to !thh iShtob. • ■'* ■ Siii^Mr Turner's letter of 9th inst< demands a few remarks from me in reply. Hii ideas of professional etiquette and Tenuity differ widely from mine. Not being ,» parvenu in my profession, and my education on these subjects having been derived from association with engineers of known ability, integrity and honour, in Great Britain, J I cannot oe expected to hare flunk to the lefel of the views held on these matters by one who hair passed his lifeims in Canada and New Zealand during the shady epoohs of OolonM^praotice. Having received tunejr information of the tactics that would W pursued by Mr Turner as xegards the ' Thompson's Track work*, I purposely refrained from reporting on, or laying any charge against; him to the Surveyor- General, knowing that if I should consider it exptdient la dot soy a ahheoq'uent opportunity would be afforded if the information I had weewe* iiumadouit: to be correct. "The .Regulations and Instructions of the Surrey Department oTNew Zealand *» provide as follows from regulation No. 18— " The fro|t pegs of sections nostjum the 11 numto«i ql the .Section, ard tjwiftt** branded. on; them; m bush back pegs to " be branded with the numbers** well; reau " -taw peg« will have && letter E aad "the fcroSd arrow, rJmging pegs the broad " arrow only: fci forest oountry, at c oa« " venient distanoes, trees on the traverse " lines shomld be blazed, having the linkage i " marked on the face. Consmonons trees " aho ad also be branded, and their distances I Ft. i*s*9 f* 01 * section corners noted in field bjok. Sections most be pegged front " and back as well as at every corner, and " have ranging pegs placed 3 chains distent "**■* S" fw>nt am, with the lines pared "2ft. wide, or cut 4ft. wide ip to fliea/ ! " Should the 3 chain distance oome in an "impracticable plaoe, then the distance from " the frontage peg is to be placed wherever " convenient beyond, and the distance from '■" tiw.froni^g© peg girea on the map. »• Se« gulatipn 20, extract: ' Thepodfions of the "section pegs in the traverse Knee already " surveyed are to be measured on the ground "and noted iv the map, and should the "section peg be off the traverse line, thi "point of intersection should be given m " well as the distance of the sectionpec from "that point." EeguUtkmlo3: tf Skm9 ** offence against these regatataons the w " Teyor-General shall, after one eoqaM ♦♦have power to withold the aathori^&sejS !! S P^w •* a surveyor in any partol * New Zealand, and such withdrawal mat •'be publicly notified in the New Zealaad " Gazette." The section pegs thus required, and specified in Begnlations IS and 20, bemg the most important and practical part of the survey, and on which the specincation atf contritctrf or horse track was based, have been teamped by iSx Turner, none of the pegi having been put in over a distance of upwards of 14 miles: This is what Mr Turner would try to make ant as three days 1 work, and that should have been performed by me. In addition to the oest of the portion of surrey made by Mr Beere, Government, through the Tauranga County Council, paid Mr Turner the exorbitant sum of £609 17fl lid for the surrey supposed to have been oompleted in accordance with the foregoing regulations of the Survey Department. Snob professional malpractice wontd, amongst my compeers, demand that Regulation No. 103 should be at once enforced. Subsequent events prove tnat this surrey was practically useless, either for carrying out the roti works, or for gazetting the land necessary to be takeftfter the - Government ■_; milch cow, not havingrJaeea sufficiently dried up by Mr Turner, a further attempt was made to do go, as will bo seen bj too follow

- _ f rom his letter to Mr Hales, Districi Engineer, re Beere'R sorvey :— "Tanranga, v §k. Auguat, Jg§Z*. X took Jeyela tm& seau tfo»8 on the liries authorified in vieve oi a inoorporatißg it with my own work, bai i, f ottD d the ii 1168 not iecn la^ °^ <«jrr*ioß, and are so run tint if adopted « would entail a serie* of cut* h?m'; '••! i; uenrly v tha wliolo distanae, which woiijd make the v WO rk tery hear? and expeaaJTe. I would^ i« therefor*, suggest and joc^om running a un^ fijje cqiitpurlng %j sjde of the rfluge, " so as t<| gwMjr |hes w«rW and oosfcof » oo^t6|Btij?n, wWoh wf3 p&k? a month "oi « &iw W^tller to do,, but' before starting the « vbrk | tiunte it ? iut ri^rht to inform yon, «4hiShig ytm might like to inerify my re- „ poyfc before the surrey ia undertaken and <i expense incurred." This attempt at iptfbetjoh tuihed out to be futile. It is nnndlciw to conscaent on Mr Turner's Teraoi^, !^ it to »y thAt on Mr Fairbonie^« j7Theinp6on f 8 Track it had to be mxefflm wi Mr Toner that the grades were not laid Efi^in the Bat of Punrr* Toon'olith luauaj* *he foUowing may be noticed : "Capt. Tmrner said he had pmt in all the fl^gof'^fnrxner remsrkß are so palpable and tgusioii bf a mad ttkmMeiFqjrftit own petard," eonfidin* puhjic. My of&M afforded him re© when he was in a prof eseienal diflßoultj, uoWhla to oonduot the : Coatity buainese. T KtS not: y«t been placed in that position. If tiheuld be, I shall not ayaH myeelf of his "vp*" Fetz-GibbohLouok.