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Table 4. —Return showing Surveyors employed and Work on Hand on 1st April, 1925

Table 5.—Principal Classes of Office-work done from 1st April, 1924, to 31st March, 1925.

APPENDIX I. HEAD OFFICE, DRAUGHTING BRANCH. Report by H. E. Walshe, Chief Draughtsman. Map-publication. —During the year a total of 133 maps were printed at a cost of £1,732. The large increase in the cost is almost entirely due to a new system of accounting in the Printing Office, and which has had the effect of increasing the printing-costs at least 25 per cent. The maps printed are comprised of fourteen large-scale town maps, thirteen |-mile-to-l-in. maps, eighty-eight 1-mile-to-l-in. maps, five 4-miles-to-l-inch territorial sheet series maps, and thirteen miscellaneous maps. The number of standard maps printed this year shows an increase of about 50 per cent, on those printed last year, but it is still below the number required to keep all the standard maps in stock and reasonably up-to-date. The cash sales of maps amounted to £990, an increase of £120 on the previous year. Other Government Departments were supplied with maps valued at £467 —about the average for a normal year. Among the miscellaneous maps were three issued in connection with the Orakei town-planning •competition, giving the data necessary for the competitors to design their schemes, and a general map of New Zealand on 25 miles to 1 inch, showing the altitudes in layer tints. The new series of 4-miles territorial maps are now in hand, four having been printed during the year and two more partly drawn.

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J Surveyors I Work on Hand. employed. Chief Surveyors. District. ~ Native [ Staff. | Contract. Trig. Topo. Settlement. Blocks, E ™ ds > j Towns. .^versi? Sq. Miles. Sq. Miles. Acres. Acres. Miles. Acres. Miles. H. J. Lowe .. 4 .. iSf. Auckland .. .. 36,075 .. 9-4 35-5 W. F. Marsh ..8 13 Auckland .. .. 1,100 19,625 137,778 52-5 125-0 V.I. Blake .. 2 .. Gisborne .. .. .. 14,400 102,000 9-0 J.B.Thomson.. .. 2 Hawke's Bay .. .. .. 2,090 J.Cook ..2 2 Taranaki .. .. .. 12,290 775 1-0 T. Brook ..1 12 Wellington .. .. 885 19,000 .. .. J. Stevenson .. 1 .. Marlborough . . .. .. .. .. 25-0 16 N.C.Kensington 1 .. Nelson .. .. .. 12,928 .. 8-0 W.T.Morpeth.. 2 .. Westland .. .. 7 1,880 .. 9-0 20-0 G. H. Bullard .. .. 7 Canterbury .. .. .. 113 R. S. Galbraith 3 .. Otago .. 50 .. 79,500 67 2-8 13-0 K. M. Graham 3 1 Southland . . .. .. 20,900 128 .. .. 10 Head Office .. 3 .. 7,200 .. .. .. .. .. 40 Totals ..30 37 .. 7,250 1,107 198,453 261,951 91-7 208-5 66

Maps drawn Plans placed on Instruments of Title. Plans examined and passed. for Lithography. Deeds and ; District. Crown. Instruments fif to | L &c°fsow! S ' T S er . Pa5Sed ' i t Transfer. 8 | !| « Leases, Free- g B jS 18 3 .3 &c. hold. Si OP. m £ s. d. North Auckland.. 479 491 264 \ ln o 17 * 7U f ™ 40 (573 112 2 109 139 4 11 Auckland .. 804 308 1,408 f w ' al/ m lg6 96 4 7 16 131 16 11 Gisborne . . 40 .. 657 744 800 12 59 56 21 1 9 25 7 5 Hawke's Bay .. 35 112 209 1,198 827 12 33 118 31 2 18 40 19 3 Taranaki .. 355 108 100 1,095 1,714 12, 74 149 68 .. 9 50 4 0 Wellington .. 252 394 554 5,689 5,122 15 88 457 102 .. 24 67 4 0 Marlborough .. 82 16 10 232 f! 66 31 8 28 22 .. 6 38 12 3 Nelson .. .. 301 71 4 231 756 31 2 87 13 8 35 34 4 0 Westland .. 188 19 .. 204 |20 32 .. 28 18 .. |3 14 11 9 Canterbury .. 214 148 70 4,548 3,017 20 13 442 22 .. |1 97 6 5 Otago .. .. 458 158 26 1,692 428 53 6 87 33 15 15 82 3 0 Southland .. 206 86 8 1,013 .. 2 2 111 7 1 11 87 18 11 Head Office .. .. 27 .. 331 1 5 Totals .. 3,414 1,911 3,310 26,963 18,504 497 481 3,200 449 63 256 1,140 14 3