NEW PLAN OF NAPIER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 256, 28 September 1932, Page 3

NEW PLAN OF NAPIER.

COLLECTION OF DATA. WELLINGTON, Sept. 28. Regulations are being issued under the Hawke’s Bay Earthquake Act to provide for the resurvey of certain areas that have been displaced within the borough of Napier and to realign streets where original marks and records have been lost, according to the annual report of the Surveyor-Gen-eral, Mr H. E. Walshe, which was presented to Parliament yesterday afternoon.

After explaining that all the original survey plans and records in the Hawke’s Bay district were destroyed by fire following the earthquake on February 3 of last year, Mr Walshe states that the work of his department during the past twelve months had been principally taken up with the re-es-tablishment of these records and laying down control for any future surveys or for these for which the details might he recovered. Copies of published cadastral maps on scales of half a mile and one mile to an inch for the whole of the rural areas, and on five to ten chains to an inch for most of the towns were available, and were utilised as key plans on which to base detailed information as it was recovered from various sources.

Larger scale tracings of practically all land tra.nsfer subdivisions were recovered from the Valuation Department, but these did not show surveydetails except areas. However, these plans, together with other information which was being steadily acquired from local bodies, Government departments, and private surveyors, had enabled the office to compile a cadastral record which would be lacking in minor details only. It had been found possible to have a large number of the destroyed plans reproduced from information in the possession of the surveyors who made the original surveys, and to date 243 such plans had been made available. Further information of this nature was being collected, and it would be found that a large number of the later surveys would be recovered in this manner.