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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 28

lien thereof I do hereby make the regulations hereinafter set forth; and do hereby declare that these regulations shall be read together with and deemed to form part of the survey regulations hereinbefore referred to.

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REGULATIONS.

RATES FOR THE SURVEY OF CROWN AND NATIVE LANDS.

1. WHERE not otherwise agreed upon, the following are the rates to be paid for the survey of Crown, Native, and other lands :—

(a.) Townships.

Sections comprising areas up to ½ an acre, at per section,—
In hilly forest lands, 24s.; in hilly open lands, 15s.
In flat or easy forest lands, 21s.; in flat or easy open lands, 10s.

½ to 1 acre sections, at per section,—
In hilly forest lands, 27s. 6d.; in hilly open lands, 17s. 6d.
In flat or easy forest lands, 24s.; in flat or easy open lands, 12s. 6d.

(b.) Suburban and Small Areas, without Subdivisions.

In forest country,—
£ s. d.
1 to 10 acres .. .. .. .. 6 6 0
11 to 20 acres (to £6 6s. add 4s. for each acre over 10 up to).. .. .. 8 6 0
21 to 50 acres (to £8 6s. add 2s. 6d. for each acre over 20 up to) .. .. 12 1 0
51 to 100 acres (to £12 1s. add 1s. 6d. for each acre over 50 up to) .. .. 15 16 0

For open country, two-thirds of above rates, and for mixed forest and open, proportional rates are to be charged.

Where subdivisions are surveyed each is to be treated as a separate survey at above rates, and a deduction shall be made from each for one-half of the common boundaries, calculated according to the class of country in which the survey lies, at the full mileage rates specified in (c).

No deductions are to be made from the foregoing rates in (a) and (b) for contiguity to prior surveys or for old lines reopened.

The rates in (a) and (b) include travelling and other expenses, mapping, and calculations, but do not include extra copies or tracings of plans.

When the proper location of boundaries is hindered or delayed exceptionally by loss of ground marks or by occupation of the lands, or by defective prior surveys, the rates in (a) and (b) may, at the discretion of the Chief Surveyor, be increased by not more than 30 per cent.

(c.) Country Lands.

At mileage rates as follows, per mile :—
Rough and precipitous country under forest— £ s. d.
Road surveys .. .. .. .. 35 0 0
Traverse and boundary lines .. .. 21 0 0
Ordinary hilly country under forest—
Road surveys .. .. .. .. 30 0 0
Traverse and boundary lines .. .. 18 0 0
Easy and flat country under forest—
Road surveys .. .. .. .. 25 0 0
Traverse and boundary lines .. .. 16 0 0
Hilly open country—
Road surveys .. .. .. .. 15 10 0
Traverse and boundary lines .. .. 9 10 0
Easy and flat open country—
Road surveys .. .. .. .. 11 10 0
Traverse and boundary lines .. .. 7 10 0

Where road surveys do not include prospecting, locating, or grading, 60 per cent. only of the mileage rates are to be charged.

In open country, gorse, blackberry, and sweetbriar, and other scrub requiring line cutting may be allowed for at 2s. per chain extra.

The above rates apply only to lines cut and observed for the survey in hand, and do not apply to lines adopted from a prior or adjacent survey by the same or any other surveyor, but the necessary reopening of old lines to locate prior surveys may be allowed for up to one-eighth rate; reproducing and repegging old boundaries may be allowed for up to full rates if in the opinion of the Chief Surveyor the work is necessary.

Ranged boundaries cut, observed, and pegged under Regulation 34 of the regulations for the guidance of surveyors, made by the Surveyors’ Board on the 8th August, 1907, and published in the Gazette of the 29th August, 1907, may be allowed for up to three-quarter rates, at the discretion of the Chief Surveyor.

Trig. connection of a survey to outside surveys or trig. stations, not including internal check-work, when required or authorized by the Chief Surveyor, may be paid for at 10s. per lineal mile for all essential sides, provided proper and full observations, calculations, and connecting triangle sheets are lodged with the plan.

Topographical and other details required by Regulation 82 of the regulations for the guidance of surveyors aforesaid, and fixed and booked properly, may be allowed at 15s. to 20s. per square mile, at the discretion of the Chief Surveyor. In any case general topography must always be shown.

An allowance of £1 per mile will be made for plotting and calculating adopted work. Tortuous roads and rivers may be allowed for in these cases up to 40s. per mile.

In the discretion of the Chief Surveyor there may be added to the above mileage rates an allowance of 5 per cent. if the surveyor’s camp is situated ten miles or more from the nearest store; if twenty miles or more, 10 per cent.; if thirty miles or more, 15 per cent.; if forty miles, 20 per cent.; and above that by special arrangement.

Travelling-expenses.

Travelling-expenses will be allowed where mileage rates are paid, and must be claimed on a certified voucher supported by receipts for fares other than railway fares, and only actual fares paid will be allowed. In addition an allowance will be made of £2 per day for one surveyor and wages for men actually travelling, not exceeding four, in respect of the time occupied by one journey to and from the survey, exclusive of any delay or stoppage.

Claims for the cost of surveys of Native lands, including the travelling-expenses, should be rendered in such manner as to show the amount chargeable in respect of each subdivision surveyed.

The Chief Surveyor is not bound to certify to costs which exceed in his opinion what is a fair charge, even in cases where arrangements have previously been made as to such costs with private individuals or Natives.

2. In any case it shall be competent for the Chief Surveyor of any district to make special arrangements different from the foregoing with respect to any block, and to fix rates by the mile, or by daily rate, or other equitable rate for surveys which do not come strictly under any of the above descriptions.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands

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Quarantine Regulations under Public Health Act amended.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by Warrant under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, dated the eighteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and one, and published in the Gazette of the ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two, at page thirteen, certain regulations (hereinafter referred to as the said regulations) were made under the authority of the Public Health Act, 1900: And whereas it is expedient to revoke paragraphs (c), (d), and (g) of regulation fourteen of the said regulations, and make other provisions in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Public Health Act, 1908, doth hereby revoke paragraphs (c), (d), and (g) of regulation fourteen of the said regulations, and doth hereby make in lieu thereof the regulations hereinafter set forth; and doth hereby declare that this Warrant shall take effect on the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette, and that the regulations hereby made shall be read together with and shall be deemed part of the regulations hereinbefore referred to made under the authority of the Public Health Act, 1900.

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REGULATIONS.

THE following precautions against the introduction of bubonic plague into New Zealand shall be observed on foreign-going ships, as defined by the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, while at any port in New Zealand :—

(1.) An effective rat-obstructing metal disc of not less than 2 ft. in diameter, and forming part of or being used in combination with an effective rat-trap, shall be kept affixed, as near as practicable to but not less than 1 ft. from the side of the ship, to every rope or hawser connecting the ship with any wharf or lighter.

(2.) All openings or holes in the side of the ship next to any wharf or lighter (as the case may be) shall be effectively obstructed by means of stout wire netting or other means