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No. 2.—Abstract of the Surveyors employed and of the Work on Hand in each Provincial District on 1st July, 1887.

No. 3.—Crown Grants and other Instruments of Title from the Crown prepared.

No. 4.—Land Transfer Work.

No. 5.—Photographs.

Surveyors employed. Work on Ham Chief Surveyors. Staff. Temporary. Trig. Settlement. District. Native Block, &c. Boads, Bailways, Town. &c. S. P. Smith, A.S.G. .. Thomas Humphries .. G. W. Williams J. W. A. Marchant .. J. S. Browning H. G. Clark G. Mueller .. J. H. Baker C. W. Adams J. Spenoe 19 7 4 9 8 1 2 5 6 1 1 1 3 3 Auckland.. Taranaki.. Hawke's Bay Wellington Nelson Marlborough Westland.. Canterbury Otago Southland Sq. Miles. 170 400 40 Acres. 56,626 18,000 12,013 111,000 25,295 780 15,675 22,186 24,639 253 Acres. 400 84,400 473,000 Miles. 389 471 Acres. 244 88 1 Totals 1,104 I 62 610 286,467 557,800 88

District. Number. Cost. District. Number. Cost. Auckland Taranaki Hawke's Bay.. Wellington .. Nelson Marlborough .. 1,630 217 69 305 507 6 £ s. d. 246 0 6 61 1 0 28 7 0 50 7 0 305 16 0 1 13 0 Westland Canterbury .. Otago Southland .. 87 813 826 257 £ s. d. 17 14 9 535 3 4 525 0 0 117 15 0 Totals 4,717 1,888 17 7

District. No. of Plans passed. No. of Plans placed on Certificates of Title. Cost. District. No. of Plans passed. No. of Plans placed on Certificates of Title. Cost. Auckland .. Taranaki .. Hawke's Bay Wellington Nelson Marlborough 228 36 74 105 259 12 710 126 290 758 192 120 £ s. d. 1,653 17 10 62 15 11 357 9 4 187 7 6 231 0 0 18 16 0 Westland Canterbury Otago Southland Totals 205 191 79 30 181 1,006 1,636 778 £ s. d. 18 0 5 5b3 6 8 440 0 0 223 2 0 1,219 5,797 3,755 15 8

Department. Number of Plates taken during the Year. Silver Prints. Department. Number of Plates taken during the Year. Silver Prints. Native Public Works 6 32 261 3 12 1 16 24 100 Premier Defence Grasses Forest Insurance Colonial Secretary 11 73 8 10 16 3 Survey Museum Marine Education House of Representatives Post and Telegraphs Mines 13 'io 35 170 18 45 *46 Total 499 444