SURVEY DEPARTMENT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17985, 31 January 1924, Page 9

SURVEY DEPARTMENT.

SO 3JE TRENCHANT CRITICISM.

I __ LmC QUESTION. I : I t(ip »«,» reporter who called ye. fe-JL l« a a « ent9 ' BUrveyors ' an |ft,U««ted in the subdivision o ITm«i ,hat tho oovernmeut Dt snder the administration o iweyor-Gcnernl, was hardly o |f .. of the wave of popularity Kit m» said that it was a Be R; «jt which had outlived its us a If! jad now having nothing els. I >cJ(!e itself busy in obstructing i ' wished to proceed with th. ffffjKMsary work of providing sec IP for the building of houses—on< 1 *di wants of the Dominion Itmfflineat Christchurch surveyor Km) tailed upon was possib.y tin iP'jjjjpoiicn critic, more particular ?*}«*» he himself stated, he bar !■ rbj'eetcd to the maximum or in W-Jii* and delay ' c:iused b > r P etti rtgnlatlons which sprang :ntc BwKte mushrooms, without warning sjfbodroutside the Department con ft:i As an example, lie quoted v. Eitbdivision, the first arrangements KLi were made in August of last wS Tho local County Council interfejroroved of tho plans, which were ILded to the Department of Lands on September 17th. Back Bt r ißcmorandum, asking if there jEuT reason why the sections should f§L (ban 32 perches in area, and HSi per cent, of the whole area had JILn allowed for a public reserve. Wk ifgard to tho former, sfc«uDfil interested who frame ffi; oirn by-laws, considered m? M perches we're sufficient Wiitutlranm section, but the Crown .ffesjeat saw fit to overrido tho local 'Stftot!" ex tont of two perches. '®sistr agreed to tho new arrango'HKkwever, as ho was anxious to 'JSjjtatfte sale of his property, but wm] to the' 5 per cent, confis*Rftr a public reserve, ho withmjllock ot 1 acre 3 roodg and 21 Jrajt leaving the wholo area subTBfe| 3 acres 2 roods, or leas than HjlKWr minimum on which a flUlaufcd for. Tho new plans ifibtjst to the Snrveyor-General on JSfiite 20th, but on October 9th a i»S§jS!i«i stating that the SurveyoriSEsal objected to tho lay-out, and iwftliiMd a section as a public ro«8r A further objoction being raisiSßSjlH owner of tha property to 4b3*u demandod that he should WSs II pet .cent, of his present hold'Jßij'JiJ event of his soiling tho "''fflßSi bringing tho total to mora jaw 4.mm. Correspondenco conHKif Ibis mottcr lasted to NbvomSiilk, sod finally on December 14th JjiskitM-was approved, and the socJjl, skirt should have been sold in iip wre not offered at auction

108 of the surveyor -who ed was that tho Surveyorprtinenfc officials had no* , and that tho real work tasnt had ceased when aion with tho survey of iad finished. Now the Doi trespassing on to tho District Land Eegistrara. (opcrty were declining to !s oil the market, refusing st to these annoying inter%ulations. In 1874. tho iflS Covered ono sheet of liW23,thoy had increased k booklet' containing 170 iiM been nine Surveyora(fteh had thought fit to <» set Of regulations, fty property wore not so ■tough they, too, had to «granting to tho Govern- « tent, for a rosorvo if i subdivided was three 0». Land outside the mt, although under the M Cdunty Councils, was f«i6 officials of the Lauds frrtmeat, who made their w tffespectivo of the als«oMorned. Tho initial fB» 60 productive of De%,that generally stir-' fm, in order to save ft,. to go on with subM Sttbfiitting a scheme. ww, the Department was from a purely %lat, irreapective of f tad toaackl aspects, 'jawyorhadnothi ngmore o W cent, taken by the toitwag "an iniquitous fcJ*,of<, M 0 f the •W laud agoucv finns in .«Jai4at vendora of land 1 osioro the will nf th» fetplaeo it was not sub'&s&»*>, now *SBt«d: to sell the Crown JSX m ? not tak <> W&t Clark, "or 100 W pl o subdividing tMto IT' ga8 ' and and asphalt foot"Sect given »JrtU T" ha EPening ,3L? B department's 5 S(fJ».«« the sections *" *° wv«r those ex--6B'McCroßtio8 ' McCroßtio lekfci e BmaU areas •WiU «m.T as reserves JB r h9 T B ( m «e eyesores, exiguous kCvr aiil &rea CbJS^^^/ones corro'P»4. P h 3 cost of sec*«d£«'Messrs Ford he que3tion of **-»aite«.? a partial