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RETURN of Field-work executed by Staff and Contract Surveyors, from 1st July, 1881, to 30th June, 1882. PROVINCIAL DISTRICT OF NELSON.

PROVINCIAL DISTRICT OF MARLBOROUGH.

PROVINCIAL DISTRICT OF WESTLAND.

Majoi Triai igulation. Minor Triangulation. Ti Tr ipojrraphical and igonometrical Survey. Em •al and Suburban. Goldfining Sui ■vey. Roads, Railand Water-rat ivays, Other Work. Total Cost of Surveyor and Party from 1st July, 1881, to 30th June, 1882. sea. Surveyor. District. Remarks. Acres. l/> ° O u ffi ft Total Cost. Acres. 6 O u Ki & Total Cost. Acre3. In ° o<t] q ft Total Cost. Acres. i'i CO c ■< ft Total Cost. Acres. *1 CD 03 o< s p. Total Cost. 0) il Total Cost. Cost. d. £ s. d. a. £ s. d. a. 3 £ s. a. 50 0 0 Revision 80 7 8 s. d. 3/2-8 10/1-8 2/4 £ s. d. 311 6 4 713 1 3 629 17 8 s. d. £ a. a. £ s. d. £ s. a. £ b. d. £ s. a. G. B. Sinclair 4,000 1,290 1,405 5,400 17 12 48 1 i - 79 18 4 715 7 3 £438 not completed last year ana revisea this year. A. P. Rawson 11,024 1-7 , * 1,255 (. 267 104 214 "74 2 7 17 14/ 5/ 23/3 12/7 884 8 0 67 6 6 110 0 0 134 18 0 58 0 0 235 18 4 768 5 4 In bush; scatterea sections. 3. A. Montgomerie 1,905 32 2/4-3 224 18 6 } 715 19 9 46 8 8 1,459 0 0 Caaet over two years. Triangulation, &c, in progress. One caaet. One cadet assisting. R. T. Sada ... J. Snoagrass ... J. H. Jennings 6,000 i-7 43 i7 0 2,873 3,040 937 954 62 51. 19 9 2/11-3 3/10 4/7-8 7/6-4 /6 401 16 0 582 13 0 218 0 9 359 14 7 15 111 6 14 0 10 0 91 0 0 115 0 0 246 3 2 35 0 0 848 19 2 911 8 0 Revision | 214 13 16/1-5 174 12 0 5i 0 10 0 52 10 0 105 11 6 810 0 10 Heavy bush and rough. P. S. Smith ... J. P. Thompson C. Galwey C. Lewis Contractors, &c-— J. Rochfort J. B. Saxon R. A. Young i 79,781 15,318 2 2" 664 16 10 127 13 2 9,492 3,370 2,622 5 67 30 4/4-7 2/ 237 6 0 740 11 7 262 5 6 59 104 7 7 18/11 12/ 55 16 0 61 19 0 "31 4 6 0 15 0 0 457 5 3 38 18 0 121 0 4 ( 831 10 5 I 527 17 8 839 14 0 587 18 0 ? 130,000 acres minor trig, and sectional work in progress. One cadet. No cadet. Also engaged in explorations. 5,107 3,171 490 55 43 7 2/2-7 1/9 1/11-2 568 13 3 277 9 3 47 7 9 568 13 3 277 9 3 593 10 3 Balance of last year's Contract No. 10. Paid by fees. '"978 o9| 11/2 546 2 6 3* Totals 116,123 1-9 966 14 8 42,056 457 2/71 5,575 1 5 3,195 1861 12/9 2,035 2 0 43i 7 8 9 319 18 8 1,377 14 11 9,739 13 5 *Mh leral. Lesi fees depoi sited for sur■eys 2,333 0 9 7,406 12 8 £

A.D.Wilson E. F. Goulter Gore Hodder ... Linkwater 804 13,127 2,000 2,993 601 1 S 2 44 3 1/6 /4f /10i 1/1 1/5J 60 10 0 231 16 7 88 3 4 159 11 11 45 0 0 39 6 0 1,036 14 8 i 619 7 10 i 91 3 6 Combined major and minor triangulal ion, embracing Cloudy Bay, Taylor Pass, and parts of Blue Mountain, Hodder, Cape Campbell, and Clifford Bay Survey Districts. ( Heavy bush. j Partly open and partly manuka scrub. 1 Principally bush and broken country. (, Major portion heavily timbered; revision survey partly done. „ Revised 40" 0 0 J. O. Western (scliodulo) Cloudy Bay \ Paid for by applicant. Open, level country; adjoining old surveys. A. W. Carkeek (schedule) Alfred Dobson (autliorized surveyor) Linkwater Wakamarina, Onamalutu 123 "9 46 3 6 90 0 0 Heavily timbered and broken country. Paid for out of deposit fees. 4i 42 16 O; 192 13 3 192 13 3 This survey was executed on behalf of and paid for by Public Works Department. Totals 2,029 19 3 Of this amount, £55 has been placed to credit of Public Account, £135 paid for by applicant out of deposit for survey, and £192 13s. 3d. by Public Works Department. 19,525 II 585 1 10 123 9 U 42 16 0 192 13 3 125 9 6 Note. —Major triangi Total cost of ulation in p: office work •ogress b; (half-salt y Mr. iry of Wilson, 320 Chief Surve,700 acre; for and 1 ; cos iraug! it to date, £1, litsnien), £57l ,257 5s. 6; inci< 4d. s lental commem 3ed 1st May, li i, including chi 881. lef survey expense; ir's t: •avellinj expenses, £i 13; t< ital cost of field-work, a>665 6s. 2d. total cost of lepartment, £2,294 6s. 2d.

Vf. G. Murray Totara, Waimea, Mahinapua, Kanieri, Toaroha 17,920 /3 223 16 10 1,165 L8 2/7-2 151 12 6 178 s: 10/3-5, 91 14 6 ,44 9 3 311 5 0 329 6 6 1,107 15 4 Bush country; expensive district within a, gold field. Unassisted by cadet. The road and water-race surveys were carried on in a part of the district very broken and difficult of access ; the continuance of bad weather and Hoods during the last four months to a great extent also account for the apparently high rate per mile. E. J. Lord ... Greymouth, Waimea, Hohonu, Arnold 25 0 65 0 0 Revision 444 8 8 6 6 0 351 12 0 113 0 0 1,005 6 8 2,000; 12,080 1/3 358 5,815 35 44 j 1/5-2 15 2! 8/4-8 22i 15 12 6 Broken forest country within a gold field. No cadet. The rural and suburban survey consists principally of revisions of old surveys and connections with survey on true meridian or with trigonometrical stations. Included in the cost of rural and suburban survey is the sum of £43 for extra trig, tubes placed at street corners within the Borough of Greymouth. Expensive and heavily timbered country within a gold field. One cadet assisting for seven months. Densely timbered country ; expensive; within a gold field. No cadet. The cost of triangulation also includes the carrying of standard bearings (outside triangulated area) up the Rivers Karangarua and Maintain. Rough bush country, within a gold field. No cadet. 3. N. Smyth Okarito, Waiho, Gillespie's Okarito and Jackson's Bay circuits 117 10 8 235 9 10 27 9 11 577 9 10 23 5 0 953 15 4 21,665 1/3 1,8023 2/7-3 21 G. J. Roberts 39,994 0-75 125 0 0 46,081 1-6 315 0 0 128,000 1-8 947 16 1 8 4 0 0 32 0 0 1,419 16 1 H. G. Price ... Totara, Toaroha, Turiwhati, Waimea 18,405 102 2 2 2,560 34 13 4 1,484/6 322 13 0 62 19/6-5 60 11 0 10 11 7-2 52 18 0 238 14 0 811 11 6 1-3 3-25 13 Totals 39,994 0-75 125 0 0 66,486 1-6 442 2 2 182,225 1-8 1,388 16 11 10,576 126 2/2-2 1,154 4 0 255; 23 12/5-2 158 11 6 63i 20 17 4 1,325 4 10 704 5 6 5,298 4 11