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No. 12.—RETURN of Field-work executed by the Staff and Contract Surveyors, from Ist July, 1890, to 30th June, 1891. PROVINCIAL DISTRICT OF AUCKLAND.

Topographical Survey. Minor Triangulation. Topographical Survey for Selection under " The Land Act, 1887." Rural and Suburban. Town ition Si rey. Nativ. I jiu id Cou: Survey. ioia-] lining Survey. Roads, R( an< Water-) ilways, Detention by Native Opposition or other Causes. Other Work. Total Cost of Surveyor and Party from 1st July, 1890, to 30th June, 1801. Surveyor and District. Acres. S is Total Cost. u u <D . <S . p.®' a© Acres. « g ; Total Cost. Acres. -» g Total Cost. o< o< = 1 1U Acres. *'£ -»o CO O Total Cost. Acres, o 8 d y •-> Q O 5j 6 6 Pig H ? 5 *"■ ■si CO Dig Total Cost. » Cost -3 P er 3 Mile. Total Cost. Cost. Cost. Remarks. Total Cost. Acres. Total Cost. Acres. L. Cussen, Hamilton F. Simpson. Whangarei F. H. Edgecumbe. Auckland J. Baber, jun. Tauranga G. A. Martin. Kaipara E. H. Hardy. Tokatoka 0. Stevens. Tangihua J. I. Philips. Awaroa, &c. H. D. M. Haszard. Hapuakohe 1295,000 d. O-li £ s. d. 131 4 8 d. £ s. d. d. £ s. d. s. 3-1 1-7 4-9 1-4 2-5 1-5 3-0 1-8 0-7 £ s. d. 347 10 5 100 11 0 207 3 5 200 0 0 294 7 6 679 11 6 240 7 2 233 14 2 348 G 4 s. £ s. d. s. 2-1 £ s. d. 30 0 0 s. £ s. d. £ £ s. d. £ s. d. 40 0 0 £ s. d. 470 2 6 83 12 0 295 2 2 125 12 6 55 13 4 15 2 0 £ s. d. 1,014 17 7 782 0 0 698 13 1 673 19 5 593 14 0 713 7 7 632 5 5 666 8 10 568 2 8 2^551 1-0 10 12 7 2,383 1,205 844 2,720 2,355 8,901 1,595 3,356 9,340 29 10 181 14 80 51 34 27 58 2-7 720 34 55-0 20-0 1315 2 34 0 0 276 1 17-7 1-6 1-0 2-2 10 12-8 22-8 6-8 6-6 8-7 226 13 0 36 11 3 6 17 0 15 0 0 8 16 Rough and difficult country. Forest and open country ; very broken. City standard survey not completed. Chiefly swamp-work. Scattered sections, rough and broken. All dense forest, surrounded by old surveys. Principally revision of old work. Chiefly forest country and roads. Half, very broken forest land; remainder, deep swamp and fern land. Principally revision of old work; generally forest. Sick-leave during the year. Generally very broken forest land. Chiefly open land. Survey for Native grants. Open and forest land ; scattered sections. Nearly all forest land, adjoining Puhipuhi. Mostly swamp land, Thames District; scattered sections. Open land ; easy country. 23-5 71-7 'ia 88 19-2 14-9 11 11 0 G5 13 10 35-2 6-2 9-7 8-2 342 8 1 51 0 0 77 12 4 4 0 0 25,000 ()■■:) 39 11 8 96,640 Maj.trig. 0-2 85 0 0 17 10 0 W. J. Wheeler. Kaeo A. V. Harington. Auckland A. H. Vickerman. Tauhoa T.K.Thomson. Rangitaiki .. J. McKay. Whangarei R. S. Galbraith. Waiawa A. G. Allom. Auckland J. A. Connell. Hukatere 2,959 319 7,505 12,796 7,110 1,350 1,932 6,638 43 4 70 9 7H 10 55 28 1-6 0-9 1-8 0-7 1-6 1-9 I-β 1-1 241 3 1 14 5 0 660 15 10 420 9 0 569 17 2 125 16 0 144 3 3 374 0 0 240 40-3 141 12 7 2-5 3-7 10-5 1-7 11-5 3-5 9-6 5-3 17-3 60 19-3 5-1 24 0 0 20 0 0 182 8 0 10 4 0 222 3 0 18 0 0 22 G 0 218 16 3 36 6 8 639 17 10 294 13 3 510 9 4 506 13 0 531 19 4 411 16 10 167 14 3 312 12 7 54 14 4 2,173 0-7 616 9 511 0 Means and totals 320,000 0-12 170 16 4 101,364 0-24 102 8 4 73,308 781 1-42 5,202 0 10 193-9 199 26-79 266 12 7 276 2-1 30 0 98-; 11-83 1,163 5 II 57 10 0 1,404 11 1 9,719 5 Authorised Surveyors. J. W. Harrison. Awaroa, &c. C. Otway. Awaroa, &c. A. L. Foster. Whangape, &c. P. Holt. Whangape, Ac. A. and F. Kelly. Whangape, &c. J. Hannah. Waipu A. Wilson. Whangarei D. H. Lusk. Whaingaroa R. Neumann. Kerikeri R. Campbell. Kawakawa I. Stephens. Mangamuka P. E. Cheal. Piako, &c. W. C. C. Spencer. Harataunga E. P. Clare. Wairoa W. Cussen and Mitchell and Cussen. King Country O. M. Creagh. King Country J. Roehfort. King Country J. B. Keast. King Country .. J. L. Tole. King Country A. B. Stubbing. Taupo D. Stubbing. King Country .. J. C. Blyth. Rotorua N. Kenny. Thames W. O'Neill. Mangonui H. K. Hovell. Coromandel A. Wilson, E. F. Adams, J. Droyer, W. C. Spencer, L. Jackson, and G. Purchase Means and totals 350,000 781500 0-2 1-5 300 "0 0 49012 G 5,955 3,512 2,816 2,050 1,835 1,622 1,440 1,215 344 298 278 265 251 71 9 5 2 2 4 8 4 2 6 7 1 1 6 1 0-9 11 1-1 1-1 1-6 V4 1-7 1-3 8-0 8-6 2-0 1-9 3-2 2-5 294 6 8 193 3 4 157 7 4 108 15 0 138 16 8 117 14 0 128 0 0 83 6 8 53 2 6 54 4 6 27 16 6 26 0 0 40 12 6 9 0 0 4J058 1 0-6 120'is 11 β-i 10-9 7o"o 0 145 14 3 66 10 0 468 2 0 178 15 0 138 16 8 117 14 0 5G 5 0 83 6 8 135 17 6 54 4 6 27 16 6 318 10 0 40 12 0 9 0 0 1,183 19 1 Chiefly forest land, " selected " and " unsurveyed." Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto, and homestead surveys. Chiefly forest land, " selected " and " unsurveyed." Chiefly open land, fern and tea-tree; scattered sections. Ditto. Forest and open land, Hokianga. Nearly all deep swamp and open lands, Piako. Scattered, open, and swamp sections. All forest. Very broken country, forest \ and open. Forest »nd open. \ Ki Country surveys . Ditto. I Ditto. All forest. j All forest and Crown awards. Open land, King Country. Thermal-springs District. Native Land Court survey. Crown awards, Ohinemuri. Homestead and Native school-site, with connecting trig. Crown purchase. Broken forest land. Gold-mining surveys in various districts. 633,193 9 o'6i 1,025 11 7 187,611 UG,152 32,913 43,709 18,7G0 2,000 146 12G 3 611 4 1 18 2 01 0-0! 01 0-3 02 0-5 2-3 4-2 40-0 I-β 1,472 7 4 1,088 13 5 289 8 9 870 11 5 238 5 0 50 0 0 17 1 0 27 0 0 G00 50 8 6 1,029 9 10 736 0 0 289 8 9 522 8 1 327 11 8 50 0 0 33 3 0 27 3 0 30 0 0 50 8 6 1,312 0 0 '337 "2 2-0 34 0 0 1 2 ;.! 1 2 4,225 201 8-2 1,71810 ■• I •■ {428,600 0-44 790 12 6 22,286 1-31 1,466 5 320,000 0-12 I 1 1,039,282 47 101 5,25G 0 11 4,225 203 8'2 1,718 10 6-5 10-9 70 0 0 7,382 7 7 Grand means and totals 0-1 893 0 10 95,597 793 1-39 G,GG8 6 193-9 199 2679 266 12 7 1,039,551 48 1-01 5,280 0 11 4,225 201 8-2 1,718 10 C .104-: 11-7 1,233 5 10 57 10 1,464 11 1 17,101 12 7 LAND DISTRICT OF HAWKE'S BAY. Staff Surveyors. E. C. Goldsmith. Poverty Bay J. Hay. Waipukurau and Wakarara .. 164 3 5/i" 4317 2 d. £ s. d H. G. Price. Mata and Hikurangi, &c... W. Armstrong. Waimata W. T. Neill. Motu 17,400 0-51 40 12 2 18,800 11,000 3-76 6-97 546 G 5 m"7 8 *8,810 24 1,284 '35 /G-93 2/3' 254 14 5 144' 2 G 339 3 0 2, 1952 Q 4.44 54 15 0 11 4 18 4 17 12 14 11 5f 9 0 0 54"2 4 223 1C 2 52 0 0 539"l5 5 75 G 8 234 8 8 47 0 0 589 8 9 647 17 8 594 0 0 518 7 2 485 8 4 District Surveyor, Field Inspector, and Land Officer at Gisborne. 1 " Other work " includes standard survey, Napier, and boundary of Awarua Block. 1 Cost of " Topographical survey for selection, &c," includes locating, grading, and traversing the necessary roads. * Skeleton survey previously made at 9d. per acre. " Other work " includes large amount of redefining old surveys. Cost of "Topographical survey for selection, &c," includes locating, grading, and traversing the necessary roads. Preparing 37,000 acres for selection. Survey not complete Transferred to Wellington District, September, 1890. A skeleton survey previously made at per acre. O. G. Goldsmith, Motu, &c. .. J. G. Wilson. Wliakarara 7,263 16 88 0 0 20 0 0 347 17 10 154 2 0 11 8 0 0 Moans and totals 17, 0-i 40 12 2 29,800 17,521 78 /10-70J 781 17 1 5-74 718 14 1 Autliorised Surveyors. A. C. Turner. Napier to Wairoa J. O. Barnard. Nuhaka North Hallett and Laing. Wairoa, Waikaremoana T. J. Mountain. Waiau G. A. Beere. Waiapu A. D. Newton. Nuhaka North 2,952 4-44 54 15 0 .. 44} 9 6 9 417 18 6 916 10 9 3,337 1 9 iiiS, 17010 8 5G|,10 14 7 7|26 13 11 608 11 5 203 12 10 23 19 2y"o 0 783 18 8 177 5 4 125 0 0 Engineering survey and traverse, Napier-Wairoa Boad. From 1st March to 30th June. Rough forest country. Contract survey, not complete. 17,600 4-27 313 3 5 422 0 5 318 2 4 408 19 7 5,503 "9 10 24 3 3 241 13 0 11 11 0 Includes locating, grading, and traversing necessary roads. Waiomatatini-Hicks Bay Road. Survey of 17,000 acres in hand. A skeleton survey previouslymade at per acre. Means and totals /743 170 10 17,600 4-27 313 3 5 5,503 Grand means and totals MS .2 13 6 1,053 17 3 23 19 0 36 11 0 2,235 6 4 17,400 0-61 40 12 47,400 5-22 1,031 17 6 23,024 /9-92| 952 7 9 2,952 4-44 54 15 0 119jll2 1 1 ,471 15 9 23 19 0 953 1 9 5,572 8 1