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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11734, 16 August 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)

The survey of the New Zealand coasts, which was commenced by H.M.s. Penguin, and is to be continued by H.M.s. Mildura, and is being undertaken as the result of representations made by the Premier to the Imperial Government in January, 1900. Mr. Seddon stated that some portions of the coast had never been properly surveyed, while in other cases the coasts or bars had changed, and the existing charts were misleading. The original survey of the coasts, which was only a partial one, was carried out by H.M. ships Acheron and Pandora, between 1849 and 1855. The programme for the present survey includes the North Island coasts from Cape Kidnappers to Cape Palliser, from Portland Island to East Cape, the Bay of Plenty, a small portion off Coromandel Harbour, and the West Coast from Cape Maria van Diem en to Manukau. The portions of the South Island to be surveyed are from Cascade Point to Farewell Spit, a small portion of the coast on each side of the French pass, the Antipodes and Bounty Islands. The colony is to pay half the cost of the survey.