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No. 2.—Abstract of the Surveyors employed and of the Work on Hand in each Provincial District on 1st July, 1890.

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

No. 4.—Land Transfer Work.

No. 5.—Photographs.

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.>■ Surveyors employed. tirveyor rs employed. Work on Hand. Chief Surveyors. Staff. Temporary. District. Trig. Settle- Native Roads, rp„„„, ment. Block, &c. &c. j lowuI Mining and Mineral Leases. Square Miles. 450 Acres. 83,660 186,563 48,880 214,507 13,500 8,350 10,644 85,935 35,025 2,700 Acres, 915,230 112 46,009 447,084 Miles. 41 4 71 6 Acres. Acres. T. Humphries S. Weetman G. W. Williams .. J. W. A. Marchant J. S. Browning .. H. G. Clark G. Mueller J. H. Baker 0. W. Adams J. Spenco 16 3 5 8 8 1 2 4 6 2 9 3 7 7 Auckland Taranaki Hawke's Bay Wellington .. Nelson Marlborough Westland Canterbury .. Otago Southland .. 200 1,518 29 225 40 4,294 24 150 2 1J583 Totals 55 28 2,168 689,764 1,408,435 376 40 6,051

District. Number. Cost. District. Number. I j Cost. " Auckland Taranaki Hawke's Bay.. Wellington .. Nelson Marlborough .. 705 199 1,150 780 119 20 £ s. a. 293 6 2 36 0 0 71 19 8 76 18 0 156 9 6 6 8 0 Westland Canterbury .. Otago Southland .. 279 285 805 105 £ s. d. 23 10 8 241 5 0 485 0 0 45 0 0 Totals 4,447 1,435 17 0 I

District, No. of Plans passed. Deeds and other Instruments examined. No. of Plans! placed on j Certificates i of Title. ' Cost. District. No. of Plans passed. Deeds and other Instruments examined. No. of Plans placed on | Certificates of Title. Cost. Auckland Taranaki Hawke's Bay .. Wellington Nelson Marlborough .. 69. 48 69 104 157 11 420 1,112 157 19 524 278 60 £ s. d. 556 0 0 156 14 0 129 4 8 145 7 6 189 14 0 23 5 0 Westland Canterbury .. Otago Southland .. Totals .. 383 145 67 37 2,322 361 898 615 514 I £ s. d. 35 2 '-. 339 14 2 415 0 0 75 0 0 1,090 2,742 4,538 2,065 1 11 J

Department. Number of Plates taken during the Year. Number of Silver Prints made during the Year. Department. Number of Plates taken during the Year. Number of Silver Prints made during the Year. Survey Mines Marine .. New Zealand Railways Justice Public Works Museum Lunatic Asylum Public Buildings 295 40 3 17 i 10 16 2 3 50 10 Government Printer Education Defence Crown Lands Patent Office Telegraph Geological 4 1 6 10 Si 18 6 6 • . Totals -- 483 16