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

T« Tr. ypogra am igonon Surv phical L letrical vRural and Subi irban. Town Section Survey. JNati S 0 -J «J Total Cost. Acres. ive Land Court Survey. Gold-Mining Survey. Roads, Railways, and Water-races. Detention by Native Opposition or other Causes. Other Work. Total Cost of Surveyor and Party from 1st July, 1881, to 30th June, 1882. Mini >r Triangulation. Remarks. Surveyor, District. §<i Total Cost. Acres. <0 Total Cost. 43'i Aorea. o V 02 P. Total Cost. sh -c ° Total Cost. 2.7, » gj o o ° o ro 3 H ■•rl O «jj Total Cost. d £ o§ Total Cost. Cost. Cost. Acres. B. d.' £ s. a. s. d. £ s. a. s. a. £ s. a. s. a. £ s. d. s. d. £ s. d. s. d. £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. d. £ s. a. £ s. a. f£100 for triangulation begun in Waikawa ana Mokoi'eta Districts, for which area cannot bo ■{ estimated. £60 P.D.P. survey of Run No. | 132, just begun. Cadet assisting. Unusually L wet season. Cadet assisting. Otara, Tuturau, Toitois, Mokoreta, Slopedown, Kuriwao Blackstonc, St. Bathans, Turnagain, Maniototo, Naseby, Long Valley, Manorsiae Leaning Rock, Tiger Hill, Poolburn, Nevis, Lanaer, Bannockburn, Erasersiae, Wakefield Kurow, -Waikouaiti, Mount Hyde, Moeraki, Otago Peninsula, North Harbour and Blueskin, Hawkesbury, Otakia, Clarendon Waikaia, Wart Hill, Lammerlaw, Hedge - hope, Glenkenich, Rankleburn Waitahuna, Table Hill, Teviot, Tuapeka East Coneburn, Shotover, Nevis, Kawarau, EarnslaV, Skippers Creek, Dart, Upper Wakatipu, Glenorchy, Martin's Bay Nenthorn, Strath Taieri Waitahuna, Teviot, Benger, Pomahaka Lower Wanaka, Lower Hawea, Cardi'ona }' = 100 0 0 i i! 346 14 4 60 0 0 6 8 9 6 8 19J 18 2 6 346 13 3 67 0 5 929 14 8 John Strauchon 5,969 35 28 3 Davia Barron ... 17,753 43 0 9§ 707 6 11 68 14 9| 50 5 10 262 18 1 1,020 10 10 A. R. Mackay ... 852 14 8 61 9 8 914 4 4 High, coW country, and surveyor has great amount of travelling. 222,454 •92 G-eorge Mackenzie 50 7 6 185 1 10 55 0 0 12 0 11 906 13 7 Mostly rough, bush lana ana small sections. Surveys small ana far apart, involving a gi'eat amovuit of travelling. 2,900 152 4 2 604 3 4 26; 32 31 6 3338 11 1 W. B.D.Murray 175,000 ■os;! 484 14 6 8,912 45 0 10| 398 9 4 ... 20 0 0 903 3 10 Caaet for four months. Rough and high, but all open country. John Langmuir... 440 18 5 15 0 3 15 0 9 0 3 27 0 9 12 0 0 483 14 2 Cadet assisting five and a half months ; on leave . six months. All open country. 11,120 60 0 9| E. II. Wilmot ... 349 4 3 118,000 •57 285 3 4 148 2 4 17 5 4 21 0 48 6 0 5 0 0 20 0 0 69 11 4 789 10 3 Cadet assisting. £349 4s. 3d. minor triangulation in Martin's Bay, work incomplete-; all bush-work. £69 lis. 4d. cost of search for young Raymond. Rural sections, no number reported. ' Nevis triangulation is very rough, but open country. Open country. W. Armstrong ... 18,524 20 401 7 1 95 2 11 496 10 0 0 51 D. W. Gibson ... 1,143 22 4 10| 278 12 2 111 1 10 8 T % 59 5 V 2f 42 14 0 380 11 9 A cadet assisting. Partly bush surveys. H. A. R. Earquhar 13,690 36 0 5 288 12 7 156 16 1 445 8 8 Open counti-y. Private Surveyor. J. Campbell Contract. Dennison & Grant 449 4 3 515,454 ■76| 1,622 12 6 80,159 305 413 5 0 10.| 2 10 3,543 9 6 43 3 0 26 3: 31 6 50 7 6 362 4l! 10 9l 194 8 6 230 694 25 14 14 Of 3 3| 161 12 5 114 5 0 28i 15 6 2 436 8 55 0 0 756 19 5 7,270 2 1 157 8 0 Scattei' e d and small surveys. 160,000 ■60 400 0 0 400 0 0 Great dela,)* 7 causea by baa weather and excessive ruggedness of country. Meai qs and totals ■72 0 lOt] 3,586 12 6 26i 31 6 50 7 6 362 41 10 9 194 8 6 924 39 5 U| 275 17 5 28| 15 6 2\ 436 8 0 449 4 3 675,454 2,022 12 6 80,464 418 32 55 0 756 19 5 7,827 10 1