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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 655, 20 March 1879, Page 2

The report of the Commissioners, appointed to investigate the charges made by Mr. Thompson, Surveyor-General, against Mr. Henky Jackson, Chief Surveyor, in the Wellington Provincial District, lias resulted iu his being required to send in his resignation, when he would receive £600 as one year's salary. Mr. Jackson has refused to resign, and rejects the offer of £600. He insists upon his dismissal. ' The real ground of complaint against Mr. Jackson, if we are not wrongly informed, is jealously on the part of the Surveyor-General of his subordinate's superior professional knowledge and abilities. Mr. Jackson should have occupied the place of the SurveyorGeneral, who would do for the laying out of country township, and perhaps correcting the difference between magnetic and true north and south'. Dismissal to a man like Mr. Jackson means that he is now open to other engagements, which will return him his present salary four-fold. Says the Chronicle, writing on the subject, Mr. Henry Jackson is one of the most able and efficient Trigonometrical Surveyors the Colony of New Zealand ever possessed. [ The splendid trigonometrical survey of the Province of Wellington is the monument and the record of his high professional reputation and ability. The accuracy of that work has been certified to by the highest European authorities. No surveys in New Zealand can compare with those executed in the Welliugton Province during the regime of Mr. Henry Jackson, as chief of the Department. It seems that the Surveyor-General, Mr. Thompson, ap--1 proved of a more superficial and ilesa

accurate system o£ surveying than tUab adopted by Mr. Jackson. We daresay the latter objected to seeing his splendid system upset. If he did so he was right. We are thoroughly conversant with the work which Mr. Jackson has done, and, founding upon that knowledge, we declare emphatically that his loss to the Survey Service of New Zealand is a very grave one, which, in the long run, will involve very serioua results in confusion and blunders in the survey of the Wellington Provincial District. Mr. Jackson's services will certainly not go begging.