INDIAN AND COLONIAL EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 7681, 15 January 1886, Page 3

INDIAN AND COLONIAL EXHIBITION.

SURVEY DEPARTMENT'S CONTRIBI7TION, The Survey Department forwarded by the Ruapehu a series of beautiful maps*, 5 *, chromolithographs, &c., for the New Ztmlaud Court of the Indian and Colonial Exhibit! -n. The Physical Map of. Now Z*alaud, which is 8(t x 10ft, and is drawn on a scale of eight miles to the iuch, shows all the natural loaturea of the Colony —such as mountain ranges, glaciers, lakes, and river systems. The map , ii very beautifully executed, the compilation and projection on the polycooic system being by Mr T. M. Grant ; the mils shading by Mr J. M. MftHngs $ and the writing by Mr F» W," Flanagan. The Land Tenure Map, also drawn to a scale of eight miles to the inch, shows in distinctive colors the land owned by Europeans) par•chased from the Natives ; the lauds owned by Europeans, purchased from the drown ; the confiscated lands unsold ; lands held by Natives under OroWn title ; lands over which the Native titles have not yet been extinguished-; Native lauds under negotiation to purchase by Government ; Crown lands still unsold, and public reserves $ Crown lands leased for pasture 5 and lauds reserved for Native purposes. This map !s A copy of the projection of the Physical Map, and having regard to the purpose lor which it has been constructed, it will, perhaps, be the one around which will centra the most interest, as showing to the eye in a graphic form the actual settlement and occupation of too Colony. The writing was principally done by Mr H, McCardell, and ; partly by Mr Grant.. 3 >me of thn vacant spaces of ibis map are filled in with colored diagrams, showing from the year 1355 to the i cad of 1884 tho progress of the Colony in populatioM, nationalities and religions ; number of children attending school ; birth, death, and marriage rate; imports, exports, and total trade; land in Cultivation *, yields of cereals and root Crops ; sheep, horse*, cattle, and other stock ; number of holdings under Cultivation ; total deposits la the Savings Banks ; revenue dud -cXpenditurn ; t nnage of shipping inward and outward; miles of railway constructed ; telegraph line?; capital invested In land, buildings, and machinery, &c. Indeed, tbi-* map afford* a complete history of the .economic and industrial progress of the Colony for the past 30 years. The statistics were compiled iu the RegistrarGeneral’s office, hut the arrangement and printing of tho diagrams was by the Survey Department, The rollers of these two large maps have bean designed in imitation of the Maori taiaba, which is a symbol of friendship between Maori tubes In amity with one another. Another map, which for the practical purpose of enabling the people at Home to understand the mode of Settlement of a new country, is the plan of the country around Mount Egmout,indicating the manner in which Crown lands ace subdivided and mapped for the information of the public prior to their being offered for sale. On this map, wh:ch is drawn on a scale of two inches to tho mile, every section and road i» ctexrly shown, the numerous streams flowing down from Mount Egmoat to the fertile Waimate Plains and the Opunake country, right up to New Plymouth, with that noble cone of Mount Kgmonb rising to a height, of 8260 feet above tho sea* shown in the back ground in a beautifully artistic manner. The Auckland branch of the Department has furnished a very interesting map of the Extinct Volcanoes of the Isthmus of Auckland, on which the well-known cones of Rangitoto, Mount Eden, and about thirty others are well hr nght out. This map was drawn by C. N. titurtevant, under the direction of Mr Percy Smith, Assistant Sur-veyor-General. The Department also farniches may specimen copies of its lithographic pro: actions, including two maps of the Auckland District, drawn to a scale of four miles to the loch ; the Taranaki, Wellington, and Hawkea Bay Provincial Districts, to a scale of eight miles to the inch; maps of Nelson and Marlborough, with parts of Canterbury and Westland north of latitude 43 degrees to a seals of eight miles to the inch ; also a map of Otago to the same scale, la a portfolio the Department furnishes a complete representation of * the New Zealand system of surveying in iti geodesical, trigonometrical, and traverse surveys, together with a volume of the published annual reports, and a sketch of the New Zealand system of eeitlemeut surveys by Mr J. McKerrow, Surveyor-General, for insertion in the *'Catalogue o f New Zealand Exhibits,” now under preparation by Dr von Haast. There are maps of each Island, showing the density per square mile of the European population, and a similar map for the North I-land, showing the location and relative density of the Maori population by different shades of colors. There is a aeries of chromolithographs, showing portions of the settled districts and towns of New Zealand, which will convey to the minds of our friends at Homo some of the mo*t pleasing rural and industrial scenes and landscapes, which are similar to those In the most fa\ored parts of the Three Kingdoms. This i* a very important part of the Survey collection, because we are rather prone to exhibit New Zealand as another Switzerland, too often ignoring its rich valleys. The chromos were drawn on atone by Mr E. Graham. Mr A. Barron, the chief of.the Surveyor-General’s Department, supervised and directed all these very interesting and scientific exhibits, necessarily involving a very large amount of plodding application. We congratulate the Survey Department on having done its share of bringing the Colony prominently and favorably before the tens of thousands who will no donbt visit the Colonial and Indian Exhibition.