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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 7, Issue 433, 31 October 1863, Page 2

We learn that the duties of Chief Surveyor will henceforth be discharged by Mr. Weber, the gentleman who so ably tills 1 the office of Provincial Engineer. ■Mr. Weber will, we believe, receive a small addition (£SO, we have heard), to his salary ; and will, by means of occasional assistance, be relieved of a duty with which he should never have been saddled, that of Paymaster of Hoads. The arrangement uuder which, at a saving to the province of nearly £300 per annum, the duties of Land Commissioner and of Provincial Treasurer will be performed by Capt. Carter, und, those of Chief Surveyor , by Mr. Weber,- may not please the little band of exrjofficials who now constitute the •opposition— for the,se ; gentlemen, so long 1 as Sthei) are but of- place, will coutinue to u^emoan the age of corruption in which we -lLve-^but it will assuredly give satisfaction to the great; body of settlers, not merely in respect of the men who have been placed in office, but as effecting; by means | of a separation of the Commissionership and Surveyorship,,an improvement in the working of the land department which has long been demanded by those conversant with the subject,