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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 30

Copied or Compiled Plans.
Town or village selection maps..5 or 10 chains to an inch.
Town or village Crown-grant
record maps .. .. 2 " "
Rural selection maps (after survey) 10 " "
" (before survey) 40 " "
Crown-grant record maps (rural) .. 20 " "
Territorial maps .. .. 4 or 8 miles "

Extreme Areas contained in Plans.
Working plans of town sections .. 7/10 mile square.
" rural sections .. 3 1/2 miles "
" minor triangulations 12 1/2 " "
" topographical .. 12 1/2 " "
" reconnaissance and
major triangula-
tions .. .. 112 " "
" meridional circuit .. 112 " "

The above are suitable for keeping in the fire-proof safes.
Wall maps may be of any size and scale.

72. With a view to the systematic record of all transactions of the Land Transfer Branch, and of surveys executed under the Public Works or other Acts, record maps on the same scales as for original surveys—namely, 20 chains to an inch for rural lands, and 1 or 2 chains to an inch for town lands—will be prepared, on which all road lines, subdivisions, and other details surveyed since the issue of the Crown grant under the Land Transfer Act, Public Works Acts, the Land Act, Native Land Acts, or any other proper authority, should be recorded.

73. Computation books should be of one size, so as to fit the shelves in the safe. The size should be a little above the ordinary foolscap, and the books should be numbered, paged, and the contents indexed, for easy reference.

74. Working plans are open to the inspection of professional men only. Selection maps are open to the public.

PUBLICATIONS.

75. Towns may be reduced to any convenient scale. Rural and suburban block or section surveys will be reduced to a scale of 20 chains or 40 chains to an inch, as the area of the sections is small or great. Districts compiled 80 chains to an inch.

76. The paper on which the drawing is made should be perfectly white and smooth, and free from dirt, creases, or wrinkles. Tracing cloth may be used, but tracing paper, unless perfectly white and carefully drawn on, seldom does well.

77. The drawing should be executed with good Indian ink, freshly rubbed down, quite black, and free from grit or glaze.

78. The lines should be firm and clean, not too fine or too close together. They must all be perfectly black, and pale ink must on no account be used. Thick lines in the printing and borders should be well filled in.

79. Washes of any colour are inadmissible.

80. If cross-hatching or shading is required, the lines composing it must be kept as open and distinct as possible, and they should not be too fine, but firm enough to reproduce well. Generally it is better to have fine hatching done by transfer from steel, and in such case the drawing should give only the outline. Intensity of shade should be shown by an increase in the thickness of the lines rather than by their being placed close together, as it must be borne in mind that throughout the process there is a tendency for the lines to thicken, so that if they are too close they are liable to block up in the printing, and the work will appear heavy and unsightly. This rule also applies to hill-shading, the darker portions of which should be drawn in thick distinct lines, but not crossed and recrossed with fine lines.

81. As the process produces a perfect facsimile of the original, it is essential that the latter should be complete in every respect, and the drawing, printing, and writing should all be done in as neat a style as possible, so that the result may be fit for immediate publication, and not require to be altered or touched up after transfer to stone, by which the work is always damaged more or less. The hair strokes of the printing must not be too fine. Border lines, which could not be conveniently shown on a large scale plan, can be drawn on the stone,

82. When plans are intended for reduction, the lines should be of the proper thickness relatively to the scale of reduction. The printing and detail must also be relatively large in proportion. This rule is often neglected, and the result is the loss of all the finer lines, words, and figures. When drawing for reduction care must be taken to leave sufficient space between the lines of the hill-shading, water-lines, or cross-hatching, so that they may be well separated when reduced, and may not block up in the printing.

83. When possible, it will be better to draw the original on a larger scale than is required for the copy, as a photographic reduction is always much sharper and much clearer than a reproduction.

84. In all cases a scale should be drawn on the plan and not stated as a scale of so many chains, feet, or miles. &c., to an inch.

GENERAL.

85. All plans deposited with any Chief Surveyor or with any inspecting officer for examination become the property of the Government, and their return for correction or addition shall not give to the person to whom they are returned any right or claim to their possession. It shall be competent for any Survey Inspector to require in special cases, of which due notice shall be given, that the rules numbered from 128 to 133, of even date herewith, made under “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” shall also apply to surveys made under this Act.

86. Upon the receipt of plan of a block for settlement, and as soon as possible after it has been checked, a tracing on cloth, without bearings and distances or traverse lines, and mounted on stiff paper, is to be sent to the Land Office; also a reduction to a suitable scale is to be prepared for lithographing either in the district or at the head office as the case may require.

87. When any report or survey is required by the Chairman of the Land Board, he shall forward a requisition in writing to the Chief Surveyor of the district setting forth the nature of the service he requires, and on receipt of such requisition the Chief Surveyor shall with all convenient speed furnish such report or survey as the case may be; provided that, when a requisition for a survey is made, the Chief Surveyor shall specially note the same in his monthly report to the Surveyor-General, and shall, as soon as practicable, direct that such survey shall be executed, unless disapproved of.

88. One officer in the Survey Department should be entirely responsible for the preparation of the draft plans for certificates of title and Crown grants, and the same officer should compare the fair copies, and certify to the correctness of the plans thereon; the duty of writing the fair copies being that of the District Land Registrar.

89. The Chief Surveyor shall, about the first of each month, send to the Chairman of the Board a report stating the progress of surveys of Crown lands proposed to be opened up for settlement, and transmit a copy thereof to the head office with his monthly report.

90. Whenever a topographical survey or a block for settlement has been completed, the Board is to be at once furnished with a tracing on cloth (mounted) giving such information as is necessary for land selection, without written bearings and distances, and lithographs should be prepared in due course for sale to the public.

91. Surveyors in the employment of Government, or executing any surveys which are to be approved by the Surveyor-General or an inspecting officer, are to report to the Chief Surveyor of the district monthly, in the form given in Regulation No. 105. Government officers shall also furnish, on the 30th June in each year, a report and summary of work done, cost, &c., for the past twelve months, in the form given in Regulation No. 106. Chief Surveyors will report to the Surveyor-General as soon as possible after the termination of each month, but not later than the 15th of the following month, giving a summary of work executed by the surveyors acting under their supervision, the arrears, or work on hand, and proposed course of duty for the following month (form given in Regulation No. 107). They shall also, on the 30th June in each year, furnish a statement of the work executed during the past year, and the expenditure in the district, in the form given in Regulation No. 108.

92. Along with the monthly report Chief Surveyors will send diagrams of field inspections that have been made in the actual surveys then going on.

93. In provincial districts having not more than ten parties at work, field check is to be done by the Chief Surveyor; but, if there be more than ten parties, an officer will be employed as a field inspector—in conjunction with his ordinary duties, if the number to be inspected be few—to be stationed in such district and over such parties as the Chief Surveyor himself cannot overlook.

94. The Chief Draughtsman will, in the absence of the Chief Surveyor, have general charge and authority in the office of the provincial district, open and attend to correspondence, and sign for him all papers or plans not having a statutory authority.

95. Field-books are to be kept in ink, and when filled up to be returned to the district office. It is to be understood that all field-books and maps, whether of the official or the contract surveyor, are the property of Government. Field-books should be dated for each survey, their contents indexed, and their number given on the finished plan. The whole of the contents of the field-book should be plotted before it is returned to be filed for reference.

96. Report if not able to repair all trigonometrical stations that are seen to be dilapidated. Renewed stations to have same letter as the old station.