Jan. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 231

GENERAL.

81. Field-books are to be kept in ink, and the
    traverse reductions worked out as the work pro-
    gresses, so that the Inspecting Surveyor may check
    the work at any time. Each day's work is to be dated,
    and the index to each field-book to clearly indicate
    the page where the field-notes of each section, &c.,
    are to be found. Field-books properly numbered
    will be issued from the District Survey Offices on
    application, and must be returned to the offices on
    being filled. The number of book and page is to be
    entered on each plan when sending it to the office.
    Surveyors cannot be too careful in keeping their
    field-books, for they are more value as evidence
    than the original plan. The notes should be full
    and clear, and so entered that any one may plot
    from them.

82. All plans deposited with any Chief Surveyor
    or with any inspecting officer for examination be-
    come the property of the Government, and their
    return for correction or addition does not give to
    the person to whom they are returned any right or
    claim to their possession. It shall be competent for
    any Inspecting Surveyor to require in special cases,
    of which due notice shall be given, that the rules,
    or any of them, of even date herewith, made under
    "The Land Transfer Act, 1885," shall also apply
    to surveys made under "The Land Act, 1892."
    All plans, field-books, tabulation, or other docu-
    ments returned to surveyors for correction are to
    be sent back to the Chief Surveyor with all reason-
    able dispatch.

83. Upon the receipt of plan of a block for settle-
    ment, and as soon as possible after it has been
    checked, a tracing on cloth, without bearings and
    distances or traverse lines, and mounted on cloth,
    is to be sent to the Land Office; also a drawing
    to a suitable scale is to be prepared for lithograph-
    ing either in the district or at the Head Office as
    the case may require.

84. One officer under the control of each Chief
    Surveyor shall be named by him to be en-
    tirely responsible for the preparation of the
    draft plans for certificates of title, Crown grants,
    leases, licenses, or other instruments of title, and
    the same officer should compare the fair copies,
    and certify to the correctness of the plans thereon.

85. Surveyors in the employment of Government,
    or executing any surveys which are to be approved
    by the Surveyor-General, a Chief Surveyor, or an
    Inspecting Surveyor, are to report to the Chief Sur-
    veyor of the district monthly, in the Form B given in
    the schedule hereto. Government surveyors shall
    also furnish, on the 31st March in each year, a report
    and summary of work done, cost, &c., for the past
    twelve months, in the Form C given in the said
    schedule. Chief Surveyors will report to the Sur-
    veyor-General as soon as possible after the termina-
    tion 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 super-
    vision, the arrears, or work on hand, and proposed
    course of duty for the following month, according
    to the Form D in the schedule hereto. They shall
    also, as soon as possible after the 31st March in
    each year, furnish a statement of the work, and its
    cost, executed during the past year, and the expen-
    diture in the district, in the Form E given in the
    said schedule.

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

87. In provincial districts having not more than
    ten parties at work, field inspection is to be done by
    the Chief Surveyor; but, if there be more than ten

parties, an officer will be employed as Inspecting
Surveyor—in conjunction with his ordinary duties,
if the number to be inspected be few—to be sta-
tioned in such district and over such parties as the
Chief Surveyor himself cannot overlook. It shall
be the duty of the Inspecting Surveyor to inspect
and check field surveys, plans, field-books, equip-
ment, accounts, reports, or other duties which the
Chief Surveyor may direct him to perform, and for
that purpose shall have access to all documents,
instruments, &c., connected with any survey he
may be instructed to inspect.

88. The Chief Draughtsman will, in the absence
    of the Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Crown
    Lands, have general charge and authority in the
    head office of the land district, open and attend
    to correspondence, and sign for him all papers and
    approve plans other than those of a statutory
    nature.

89. The method of keeping field-notes required by
    the department should be adhered to, except in cases
    of surveyors who have used other methods for many
    years. 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 con-
    tents 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.

90. Surveyors engaged on Government work are
    to repair all trigonometrical stations that are seen
    to be dilapidated, or report their inability to do so.
    All renewed stations are to have same letter as the
    old station.

91. The forms hereafter set forth in the schedule
    shall be used for the purposes of the foregoing regu-
    lations in the several cases to which they are ap-
    plicable, and shall be deemed to be part of the said
    regulations, and may be modified in each case as
    the facts require.

SCHEDULE.

A.

FORM OF TRAVERSE TABLE.

TRAVERSES of , marked District, Block
Section , Land District.

| Page of Field-book. | Surveyor's No. | Cardinal Direction. | True Bearing. | Measured Distance. | Traverses of each Distance. | Total Traverses from Trig. | Remarks |
| | Peg. or Trig. Stn. | | | | O.M.† | O.P.† | O.M.† | O.P.† | |
| | | | | | N. | S. | E. | W. | N. | S. | E. | W. | |
| | | | | | Lk. | Lk. | Lk. | Lk. | Lk. | Lk. | Lk. | Lk. | |

• Note that surveyor's numbers should be sewn on back of pegs
  in Roman figures, and distinct from branded section numbers in
  front or side of pegs.
  † On meridian.
  † On perpendicular.