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Table 4. —Return showing Surveyors employed and the Work on Hand on 1st April, 1920.

Table 5. —Principal Classes of Office-work done from 1st April, 1919, to 31st March, 1920.

APPENDTX I. REPORT BY W. T. NEILL, CHIEF INSPECTOR OF SURVEYS. Triangulation. The field-work of the major triangulation, which was commenced in 1909 and continued until 1915, when it was stopped on account of the war conditions prevailing, has not yet been resumed. Before the computation work can be proceeded with by the office staff it is essential that the tapes used in measuring the base-lines should be compared with the Imperial standard of length. A comparator and bar were obtained for this purpose, which is described in the Survey Report for 1912-13, but the apparatus is stowed away in the safe, and cannot be used until a suitable site is selected on which it can be permanently erected and housed. : There is also a pressing need for a suitable site to compare the tapes used by the staff and private surveyors with the Imperial standard band, as the erection of the new building for Base Records has covered one of the terminal blocks of the standard behind the Government Buildings which was previously used for this purpose. The acquisition of a site on which to erect the comparator and standard bar in a locality where it is unlikely that it will be disturbed by the extension of existing buildings or the erection of new ones is therefore a matter of importance in the ordinary routine work of the Department, besides providing a secure, and reliable copy for all time of the Imperial standard of length now —through the well-directed efforts in 1904 of Mr. J. W. A. Marchant, SurveyorGeneral —uniformly used on all surveys throughout the Dominion.

Surveyors employed. Work on Hand. Names of Surveyors. R. P. Greville, F.R.G.S. H. M. Skeet.. W. F. Marsh Q. H. Bullard (3. H. M. McClure H. D. McKellar H. J. Lowe .. R. S. Galbraith H. D. M. Haszard, F.R.G.S. R. T. Sadd .. T. Brook Staff, j T r e ™P°' . Contraot. ..5 1 12 4 .. 14 4 .. 0 .. i 4 .. 16 ..3 .. 3 .. 1 .. 2 .. 1 2 4 .. | 1 .. 2 District. North Auckland.. Auckland Hawke's Bay Taranaki Wellington Nelson Marlborougli Westland Canterbury Otago Southland Native T, na . 0 Settlement. Blocks, Koaas, Town Ac. *°- Acres. Acres. Miles. ' Acres. 35,512 .. 2-2 151,032 .. 73-8 4-5 60,931 36,826 45,587 2,860 5-5 47-0 24,067 110,844 5-5 37,800 1,400 12-0 1,181 3,412 14,820 6,306 7'0 445 .. 1-0 289,850 448 18-0 10-0 8,000 391 Total staff surveyors ..41 1 43 i 43 669,231 162,487 125 61-5 669,231 162,487 125 61-5 l I i

District. P SH «| Plans placed on Instrument t, % of Title. £ | _/ op, -? . a r, <» 11 a I aa a s S =»§ li tin J* * l| Maps drawn for »,__; 8 „ Lithography. » •§ cd sa p : p,-^ 11 «ii ii i ii IS , s || s^ Lithographs sold. r North Auckland .. Auckland Hawke's Bay Taranaki Wellington . . . Nelson Marlborough Westland Canterbury ■ .. Otago Southland 40 508 623 144 645 75 98 152 372 458 300 40 50 650 90 508 7,419 .. 3,661 623 1,181 ' 1,121 1,777 144 1,455 1,442 1,970 645 5,192 831 3,146 75 737 8 375 98 317 138 170 152 00 6 372 3,988 155 2,328 458 1,820 218 820 300 1,013 146 533 488 104 2 39 815 .. .. 91 405 1,027 .. 20 287 1,144 4 4 8 468 745 2 39 121 75 .. .. 5 25 158 294 ! .. .. 26 138 804 8 21 1,820 136 211 4* 13 £ s. d. 80 1 0 326 8 5 43 5 10 55 14 0 65 14 0 46 11 3 14 6 0 12 18 0 31 7 0 125 15 1 04 14 8 Totals ' .. .. 3,415 3,415 23,232 4,715 14,870 1,232 4,' fill 5 14,870 3,252 4,193 20 I 258 1,834 866 15 9 * Revised.