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Table 1. — RETURN of Field-work executed by the Staff and Contract Surveyors, from 1st April, 1905, to 31st March, 1906— continued.

Surveyor and District. Minor Triangulation and Topographical Survey. I * ag Acres. +j g Rui'aland Suburban. Town Section Survey. Native Land Court Survey. Gold-mining Surveys. Roads, Railways, and ' Water-races. Other Work Total Cost of Surveyor and Party from 1st April, 1905,j to 31st March, 1906. Remarks. log ag Acres. dB -g g Acres. "S 2 ■ \&> ag Acres, « g , O O :O S5 i Cost per Mile. Cost. ■ Temporary Surveyors —contd. Roberts, A. M. Makotuku, Kaitieki -AND iistb: CT IF WELLING , ON— coi ■tinued. £ s. d. f .. 22,344-51 13 .. 254-61 6 I 0-9 s. ■ d. [ s. I 7 £ s. d. 18 0 £ s. d. 793 1 5 Greville, R. P. Belmont, Mangaone, Mangahao .. I .. •• I 2-0 79 1 0 235 11 9 J* e. u. 793 1 5 , 235 11 9 , £1,389 14s. is carried forward to next year, being £996 14. 5d. against the Tβ Tuhi, Ahuahu, and Puketotara Blocks, and £392 19s. 7d. against the North Waimarino Block. Surveys in rough hilly bush land. £168 14s. 10d. is brought forward from last year and not included in total cost of party. Transferred to Mines Department 1st September, 1905. Small, scattered surveys; much travelling. 8-81 2,211' 23-14 1,290 15 9 8,916 15 41 Means and totals 1 l 96,862-l; I 1-84 I 569-34) 9-391 13,390 — I 10-51 18-62 50,500 2081 874] 37, 20-78! t .. I ,AND DIS , 'RIOT OP NELSON. Staff Surveyors. J. A. Montgomerie. Reefton, &e. i 687 50-5 lj 9 3-63 27-75 I i I i i ■■ ■• ■• •• ! ! 11-61 18-00 7-763 37-5 402 2 01 893 4 21 "Other work" includes office-work (District Surveyor, cadet, and contingencies), £240 4s. Id.; revisions at Reefton and Black's Point, £14 8s. 7d.; Brown and Rough Creeks Roads (incompleted), £3417s. 7d.; ReeftonGreymouth Road (incompleted), £52 2s. 2d.; and 5,000 acres (incompleted) in Inangahua Survey District, £51 2s. Three last mentioned amounts will be carried forward to next year, together with £75 5s. 7d. brought forward from 31st March, 1905, on incompleted Reefton-Greymouth Road. Of "Rural," 17,768 acres, 9,236 acres are open and 8,532 acres are forest. " Other work" includes £103 4s. 7d. for miscellaneous works, £36 7s. 8d. for Road Department's work, and £36 19s. 2d. for incompletsd work on Rainy River Block (sectional survey). The amount last mentioned, and £887 9s. 9d. brought forward from 31st March, 1904, on 409,488 acres of income pleted trig, and topo. work, will be oarried, into next year. i I I I B. T. Sadd. Motupiko, &o. l • 1-08 17,768 3.3 897 4 0 19,646 ♦18,136 47 1-01 1-25 8-0 176 11 5 1 ,