MR LESSONG IN EXPLANATION.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2043, 22 July 1875, Page 2

MR LESSONG IN EXPLANATION.

-'•-•. Tc£tho Editor of the Evening Star. Sib,—After the injurious strictures passed upon me by. Mr. Warden Fraser, you will favor me by-uuaf&ing the following remarks as an act of justice to myself. I surveyed the Pakirarahi claim*which was rejectedjby thejDistrict Engineer, Mr McLaren, because the south boundary did not agree with Messrs Wright and Bayldon's survey of the, Taicua. Mr Bayldon re-surveyed the same, and on his plan the south boundary was, by. JI mistake, incorrectly delineated, causing a loss to the company of five men's ground (which, bye-the-bye, has since been pegged out). This plan was directly accepted by Mr McLaren, evidently without checking, the license granted, and the deed prepared from it. I had also surveyed the Star of the South joining the southern boundary of the Pakirarahi, jwhich was rejected and declared incorrect by the District Engineer,' 'because ifc.v:did riot agree with '.the incorrect' line of Mr Bayldon. When this mistake was found out through 1 me, an opportunity was afforded to Mr Bayldon to correct-it in the office. But how did Mr McLaren serve, me when in one of my plans :a clerical error occurred, where the figure 2 should have been 1 ? Why, he sent my plan with a note to the Warden, and when I desired to alter what was «vidently an error in copy, I was told to make another plan. . .-■;?- . Again, Scanlan's claim was surveyed by me, the plan rejected, resurveyed by Mr Bayldon, his plan accepted; and when compared with mine the difference is not appreciable. ■' . I could add much more to show that fair play is not aocorded to me and other surveyors on this field. If our plans" differ in bearing, &c.; from the gentlemen a whom I have mentioned, whose plans are - ■ invariably accepted (without checking) as correct, and any deviation therefrom— 'or . regard „ to connections with.Tdther surveyors' work—considered as an act of presumption and incapacity. I may add that for 20 years I bare followed the profession in Australia and New Zealand, serving both the General and Provincial Governments, and the Native Land Office ; that my plans have ■ been always found corretst, and that by heads of de« ■ partments, who, in .my-- humble. opinion - are of at least as high a professional standing as Mr McLaren. I would beg to remind that very zealous officer that plans by different surveyors will never join like the pieces of a child's puzzle. In Australia they allow a minimum error of 7 links in each allotment, but I suppose they must come to Mr McLaren to learn their business.—l«am, &c,,- ' L. LesSOXQJ _ . Surveyor.