Two New Maps Available

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31764, 22 August 1968, Page 8

Two New Maps Available

The Lands and Survey Department has publishel two new topographical maps ol Benmore and Cave.

The department has also revised the Duntroon map first published in 1943. The three maps are likely to be of great interest and use to mountaineers, hunters and trampers. The map of Benmore takes in the north em reaches of Lake Benmore and the Cave map which adjoins the Benmore map features the Grampian mountains, Kirkliston and Dalgety ranges and the Hunter hills The revised Duntroon map shows the Waitaki river in the centre of the sheet dividing the Canterbury and Otago land districts. The maps are at a scale of one inch to one mile.

The chief surveyor of the

department in Christchurch (Mr R. A. Innes) said yesterday 75 per cent of the Canterbury land district had now been covered in the topographical series. Other maps recently published included an area of over 3000 square miles extending from the east coast near Ashburton to the West Coast near Franz Josef.

The department had also completed its eighth edition of the Christchurch streets map.

The department had recently published a special feature strip map showing the principal topographical features, huts and tracks along the route over the Harper Pass and extending from the Boyle River in the east to the Otira River in the west, he said.