Tn reference to the message from Auckland stating that a retired survey officer had exposed a mistake of four miles in the Admiralty’s charted position of the Three Kings Islands, Mr. A C. M Steely, surveyor, Marton, states that when making surveys of the South Island in 1911 with Mr J. A. Robertson, Government surveyor (now deceased) the latter informed him that ho had dis covered an error of four miles in the Admiralty charts relating to the southern coast of the Sooth Island Mr. Sicelv believes that Mr Robertson’s survey maps showing the error are still available. Tim relatives of the deceased livo in Dannevirke.— Press Assn.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 233, 14 September 1928, Page 5
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