New Zealand Gazette – 1907 – No. 77

Page 2727

✨ Land Survey Regulations



Aug. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2727

be more than ten parties, an officer shall be employed as Inspecting Surveyor—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.

  1. It shall be the duty of the Inspecting Surveyor to inspect and check field surveys, plans, field-books, equipment, 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.

  2. 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.

  3. The original Maori names of places are to be preserved as far as possible. To this end the Chief Surveyor should see that these are added from time to time to his maps, and when the 80-chain maps are to be published by the Department the Head Office should be notified. The names should be verified by Natives or by Native experts whenever an opportunity occurs. Names of places given by the original explorers or otherwise are not to be altered without the consent of the Surveyor-General.

  4. All selection and general plans, such as county maps, &c., are to be open to public inspection free of charge.

  5. Surveyors desiring to consult working-plans, record, or other survey maps are not to be charged fees for inspection, or for taking tracings therefrom when required to enable them to carry out surveys, and none but surveyors or draughtsmen are to be allowed to copy working-plans or maps.

  6. The following fees will be payable for the inspection of original maps other than selection or index maps:—

For general inspection of a map .. .. .. 1 0
" permit to copy from a working-plan, one section .. 1 0
" each section after the first up to ten sections, each .. 0 6
" any number of sections above ten, each .. .. 0 3
" the whole of any map .. .. .. 10 0

The draughtsman in charge of maps may make a rough tracing of a section or sections with detail for deeds on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d.

  1. The fees charged for inspection of or copying plans, or for the purchase of lithographs, protractors, &c., must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue every Saturday morning before 11 o’clock, and the draughtsman in charge of plans must keep an account-book in which all fees received and the names of the persons from whom received are to be entered.

  2. In the case of selectors of Crown lands who are about to occupy their selections, a tracing from the working-plan of their holdings may be made by the draughtsman in charge, if the selector so requests, free of charge.

  3. The forms hereafter set forth in the schedule shall be used for the purpose of the foregoing regulations in the several cases to which they are applicable, and shall be deemed to be part of the said regulations, and may be modified in each case as the circumstances require.



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🗺️ Land Survey Regulations under The Land Act, 1892 (continued from previous page)

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Survey Fees, Crown Land Survey, Payment Scales, Open Land, Forest Land, Chief Surveyor, Surveyor-General, Field Inspection, Draft Plans, Certificates of Title