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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 12

may be enlarged to 10 or 20 links to an inch. Marginal diagrams of intricate portions may be used. All plans should bear the surveyor's name and address; they should be drawn in a neat, plain, and professional manner, in accordance with examples, which will be shown to surveyors on application.

17. Where the land forms a part of two or more original sections the boundaries of such sections must be shown by a distinguishing colour.

18. The sectional numbers, or names of Native blocks, with the names of the owners or occupiers of the land represented by the plan, and also the names of the owners or occupiers of adjoining lands, whenever obtainable, should be written on the plan, and inquiries, if necessary, must be made for that purpose by the surveyor. Names of adjoining proprietors may be dispensed with in surveys for subdivisional purposes.

19. If the boundary is a wall, it must be shown whether it is a party wall, and whether the line runs through the centre or otherwise. The true position of all boundary-fences must be shown, and the nature of the boundary of the land, whether wall, house, fence, ditch, hedge, stream, road, or undefined, should be stated. The position of a traverse line relative to the hedge, ditch, or fence should be clearly stated (or shown by enlarged marginal plan), whether the line measured is inside or outside or in the middle of the boundary. Swamps, terraces, or irregular fences are inadmissible as boundaries. These must be reduced to straight lines, having defined bearings and distances.

20. Every plan of any survey made under the Land Transfer Act must exhibit, distinctly delineated, the adjacent and included natural features, all the sides of roads, streets, passages, thoroughfares, fences, squares, reserves appropriated or set apart for public use, and also show all allotments into which the land may be divided, marked with distinct numbers. In towns, all the buildings on the section dealt with, and the buildings abutting on the boundaries of adjoining lots, are to be shown on the plan. All plans of private townships, or of extensions of private townships, which require to be submitted to the Governor under sections 17 and 18 of “The Land Act, 1892,” are to conform in all particulars with that Act, the 10th section of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1895,” and these regulations.

21. The nature of the boundary—namely, roads, reserves, sections, natural features, together with all easements, such as eaves, light-rights, drainage-rights, whether on, over, or under the surface, and all claims by adjoining owners over the property under survey, &c.—should be shown.

22. All measurements must be given in links.

23. In case of intricate boundaries an accurate description of them must be furnished with the plan.

24. Roads, streets, and rights-of-way to be coloured with burnt sienna; edge of land to be dealt with, green; water, Prussian blue. Where natural features, such as terraces, are shown as the boundary of an allotment or section, they should be coloured with sepia.

25. If required, the licensed surveyor must produce his actual field-book for the inspection of the officer checking his work.

26. The actual measurements made in the field must be given, notwithstanding that they may not agree with the Crown grant or public map, and, should the difference be material, the measured distance and bearing to the next adjacent Crown-grant boundary is to be furnished, in order to determine whether there is any real encroachment, or whether the differences arise from former defective surveys. The license of any surveyor will be cancelled if it is found that the measurements or bearings certified by him as correct differ materially from those which exist on the ground. And, in dealing with this subject, the surveyor must adhere to the principle of the unchangeableness of original lines and corners, established by Government or other duly-authorised surveyors, done in good faith; in other words, where the lines and corners are originally established on the ground by a proper officer, in pursuance of the survey system ordered by the law of the time, they must be regarded as the true lines and corners which they represent, even if subsequent surveys indicate that the posts, pegs, or marks are out of line, and that the corners are out of position, according to the original description thereof. Surveyors should also bear in mind that the Act prohibits the District Land Registrar from issuing a title to land held in adverse occupation.

27. When an existing fence or building is relied on as the boundary of a property the surveyor should state in a note on the plan the evidence he can obtain as to the erection of such boundary, and the date on which it was erected; and also, in cases where such boundary is departed from, the same information and the reasons for the same should be given.

28. When a survey made under the Land Transfer Act differs materially from the Crown grant or public map the Chief Surveyor, before altering or rectifying the records of his department to enable a correct certificate of title to be issued, will, if he deem it necessary, require a verifying survey to be made by another surveyor, to be approved of by him, or by the Inspector, to determine the correctness or otherwise of the deposited or of the original survey.

29. The required declaration shall be made on the margin of large plans, and may be on the back of those of a small size.

30. All surveys under the Land Transfer Act are to be substantially pegged on the ground, such pegs to be not less than 3in. by 2in. scantling of the heart of totara, kowhai, blue-gum, kauri, matai (black-pine), puriri, or hinau, not less than 18in. or 24in. long, to be driven 15in. or 21in. into the ground, according to the nature of the soil, the hole having first been driven by an iron jumper; the pegs to be branded with the allotment number, with not less than 1in. figures branded one-eighth of an inch into the wood. At frontage-pegs of rural and suburban lands, when practicable, trenches at least 2ft. long, 9in. deep, and 9in. wide, and not less than 2ft. therefrom, to be cut in the direction of boundary-lines. Where wooden pegs cannot be driven, as in cities, iron bolts or spikes are to be used instead. Boundary pegs must wherever possible be inserted on the boundary, and not at stated distances therefrom.

31. The position of every peg is to be shown on the plan by a red circle; old pegs, when found, by a black circle; the position of lockspits or other original marks to be shown on plan if necessary. In all cases in which lands are subdivided for townships at least four iron pegs, not less than 1in. square and 18in. long, reciprocally visible from one another, should be driven in the street 25 links off the section lines, to which reference may be made in cases of dispute. Where the boundaries on the ground differ materially from the Crown-grant boundaries such Crown-grant boundaries to be shown by dotted black lines.