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Table 4. —Return showing Surveyors employed and Work on Hand on 1st April, 1926.

Table 5. —Principal Classes of Office-work done from 1st April, 1925, to 31st March, 1926.

APPENDIX I. HEAD OFFICE, DRAUGHTING BRANCH. Report by H. E. Walshe, Chief Draughtsman. Map-publication.—The total maps published during the year were 129, at a cost of £1,609. They comprised survey-district maps (f mile to 1 inch), 37 ; survey district (1 mile to 1 inch), 61 ; counties (1 mile to 1 inch), 12 ; towns (8 chains and 10 chains to 1 inch), 10 ; territorial (4 miles to 1 inch), 3; and miscellaneous and small-scale general maps, 6. The number printed is still below the number required to keep the map stock up to date, so that lithos dated forty years ago are still in some cases being used. The cash sales of maps amounted to £1,110, an increase of 12 per cent, or £120 on the previous year. This increase is very satisfactory, as it is on the usual standard lithos and is not due to any map for which a large special demand is made. Other Government Departments were supplied with maps to the value of £620, excluding the census maps. These latter were prepared at a cost of £1,254, of which a,bout £400 represents the value of the lithos used, and the balance the work put on by the draughtsmen. No new sheets of the 4-miles series territorial maps were published during the year, though three sheets are in the hands of the printer. Census. —The preparation of the Enumerator and Subenumerator maps for the quinquennial census were completed, and entailed a considerable amount of work by the draughtsmen during the period of preparation. This year the procedure was simplified in several particulars, allowing the work to be carried out much more economically than formerly.

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employed. Work on Hand - Chief Surveyors. -7 District. NatiroH Staff, j Contract. Trig. Topo. Settlement. Blocks, E |o dS ' I Towns fravenS Sq. Miles. Acres. Miles. Acres. Miles. H.J.Lowe .. 5 .. N". Auckland .. .. 21,190 .. 11 13 K.M.Graham.. 5 15 Auckland .. .. 1,060 27,400 111,415 26 70 E. H. Farnie .. 2 .. Gisborne .. .. .. 10,704 08,304 4 J.D.Thomson.. 1 2 Hawke's Bay .. .. 4,000 445 W. D. Armit ..2 2 Taranaki .. .. 1,200 8,000 512 F. H. Waters ..2 11 Wellington.. .. .. 1,230 11,672 .. 80 J. Stevenson .. 1 . . Marlborough .. .. .. .. .. .. 16 A. F. Waters .. 1 .. Nelson .. .. .. 14,600 .. 2 W.T.Morpeth.. 2 .. Westland .. .. .. 691 364 27 30 W. Stewart 2 1 Canterbury.. .. .. .. 79 R. S. Galbraith 3 .. Otago .. .. .. 6,434 200 1 N.C.Kensington 2 1 Southland .. .. .. 8,052 .. 1 10 Totals.. 28 32 .. .. 2,260 102,301 222,991 72 193 26

Maps drawn I Plans placed on Instruments of Title. Plans examined and passed. for Lithography. Deeds and Crown. Instruments S| * I f Native Land passed. • Land g 5 Leases, Free- Trans£er - f 5 Transfer " |1 Sf % &o. hold. S | gg S| « ' £ s. d. North Auckland 410 441 300 \ lfl _~ 0 * «<m/ 64 57 648 114 5 104 241 0 0 Auckland .. 971 368 1,196 f w ' 10 '' 206 1Q7 8g9 35 11Q Ig 0 Gisborne .. 53 .. 472 1,077 .. 27 56 71 17 1 29 8 6 Hawke's Bay .. 38 62 396 2,656 1,350 19 58 115 26 4 9 52 10 3 Taranaki .. 236 166 450 1,295 1.694 83 51 147 66 5 17 53 18 6 Wellington .. 385 530 405 11,111 5,402 20 93 500 114 1 12 51 5 0 Marlborough .. 103 18 18 1,027 488 24 10 32 30 3 32 14 9 Nelson .. .. 259 128 2 202 591 59 .. 143 12 10 28 61 16 6 Westland .. 199 23 .. 674 210 43 33 6 6 25 13 4 Canterbury .. 173 110 120 7,870 2,684 42 15 476 25 1 149 12 9 Otago .. .. 452 152 34 2,982 498 62 8 111 44 10 17 89 12 2 Southland .. 341 80 .. 1,910 1,556 21 2 115 18 6 3 103 6 6 Head Office .. .. .. .. .. .. 328 13 4 Totals .. 3,620 2,078 3,393 41,563 20,367 670 457 3,280 472 42 235 1,330 9 "7