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Table 3. —Return showing Surveyors employed and the Work on Hand on 1st April. 1917.

Table 4. — Principal Classes of Office-work done from 1st April, 1916, to 31st March, 1917.

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Sui Surveyors employed. trveyors employed. Work on Hand. Chief Surveyors. Staff. T vlv},' 0 " Contract. Land District. j Trig. ™_j_" Town. land Surrary. menu. v Boads. H. M. Skeet W. F. Marsh G. H. Bullard G. H. M. MeClure F. A. Thompson .. H. D. MeKellar .. T. Brook W. H. Skinner .. K. T. Sadd H. D. M. Haszard 15 7 3 3 4 2 3 4 3 15 7 3 3 4 2 3 4 3 Acres. I Acre. I 7 53 Auckland .. j 16,000 167,450 ! 30 321,341 10 Hawko'sBay I .. 80,171 ; .'. 28,231 1 8 i Taranaki .. 27,000 46,210 .. 28,696 11 Wellington .. .. 16,663 15 51,440 4 Nelson .. .. 49,520 1 .. Marlborough .. 6,900 1 Westland .. .. "25,400 Canterbury.. .. 78,662 Otago ..• .. 143,766 1 Southland .. .. 8,510 '.-".. 7 i l 53 10 8 11 4 "i l Miles. 228-25 i'00 1-75 840 21-00 0-10 Total staff surveyors 44 9 88 43,000 623,258 I 5,000 acres topographical. 45 I 429,708 i 263 50 - Include

District. Plane placed on Instruments to "a, ol Title. 11 © Pi __ _ 1 <gf il 1 I -si * * | ij i a '3 I 1 ca S Maps drawn. Erl Jsj 'll I Soft « -■ _> i—\ -*rl r- SI -3 _j g 3 Mu; III a. oi i_ I I s Mthos sold. G i Auckland Hawke's Bay Taranaki Wellington Marlborough Nelson Westland Canterbury Otago Southland I ,152 8,570 6,037 I 3,269 154 ! 2,453 1,333 965 321 ! 1,128 367 1,709 414 4,315 ' 506 , 2,424 85 211 2 343 645 ... 234 124 128 101 214 2,784 30 1,805 874 1,614 ! 71 5 j 365 877 15 368 j -1,782 588 328 440 39 184 75 311 .147 ! 92 243 395 .. 22 289 , 6 9 589 | 9 33 4 333 .. 25 8 6 18 874 ] I 29 427 | 2 55 2,915 I 23 438 I, *e. £ s, d. 1,500 163 17 6 58 12 9 30 11 10 39 18 4* 3 11 0 27 18 0 II 16 10 .. 22 12 6 ,S12 39 J 10 33 11 0 Totals .. 4,046 22,725 8,462 10,779 3,992 2,312 434 11 7 * Ineludes counter-charge* s, traeirif.