New Zealand Gazette – 1923 – No. 54

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✨ Survey Regulations and Land Notices

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 54

portions of such new road or deviation are taken from adjoining sections,
then each area so taken from each section shall be coloured alternately
sepia or orange.
10. The use of burnt-sienna, sepia, orange, and green must be restricted
to the cases above mentioned.
11. No private crossing on railways to be distinctively coloured or shown
in any way.
12. Plans to be in duplicate, one copy to be prepared on mounted drawing-
paper and one copy to be on mounted tracing-cloth.
13. The regulations of the Survey Department to be observed except
where herein varied.
14. Land plans, or portions thereof, with all necessary explanatory
data when completed, should be forwarded to the Head Office, through the
local office of the Department, before being submitted to the Chief Sur-
veyor for approval. On receipt of the plans, or any portion of same, at
this office, a progress-payment of 50 per cent. of the value of the work done
will be made ; and after the whole of the plans have been approved by the
Department and by the Chief Surveyor the final payment will be made.

APPENDIX P.
[Regulation 133.]
LAND REQUIRED FOR
TO BE TAKEN UNDER SECTION
OF
THE
Schedule.

The several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder :—

Approximate Area of each of the Parcels of Land required to be taken.	Being Section, or Portion of Section, No.	Situated in Block	Situated in Survey District of	Shown on Plan marked	Coloured on Plan	Registration District of	Situated in the Borough, Road District, or County of * †
A. B. P.

Licensed Surveyor.

Date :

Examined and found correct :

Date :

Chief Surveyor.

All in the Land District of ; as the same are more particularly
delineated on the plan [or plans] marked , deposited in the Head
Office, Department of , at Wellington, in the Land District of
Wellington, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

The heading herein to be altered to suit the requirements of each case by striking
out such portions as do not apply and adding anything further which may be requisite.
† Here insert name of local body.

APPENDIX Q.
[Regulation 86.]
ASTRONOMICAL CHECK.

Azimuth may be determined by either solar or stellar observations.
A professional paper by Thomas Humphries, F.R.A.S., under the title
of “Directions for testing Traverse Bearing by Observations on Circum-
polar Stars with Five-inch Transit Theodolite,” is published by the
Department of Lands and Survey.
Computation forms for facilitating the numerical work by a systematic
arrangement of the formulæ of a star at elongation are obtainable at each of
the district offices from the Chief Surveyor.

W. T. NEILL,
Chairman of Surveyors’ Board and Surveyor-General.

W. C. SMITH,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.

Signed at Wellington this 20th day of March, 1923.

In pursuance of the provisions of subsection two of section seventeen
of the Surveyors’ Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908, His Excel-
lency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion,
doth hereby approve of the foregoing regulations.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

Approved in Council this 25th day of June, 1923.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1923, No 54

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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🗺️ Land Plans for Public Works Department (continued from previous page)

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
KeywordsLand plans, Railway surveys, Public Works Department, Survey instructions

🗺️ Land Required for Public Works

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
KeywordsLand acquisition, Survey plans, Public Works

🗺️ Astronomical Check for Surveyors

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated20 March 1923
KeywordsAstronomical observations, Survey regulations, Traverse bearing
👱🏽 Names

Thomas Humphries, Author of professional paper on astronomical observations

👩‍💼 Officials

W. T. Neill, Chairman of Surveyors’ Board and Surveyor-General
W. C. Smith, Secretary, Surveyors’ Board

🗺️ Approval of Survey Regulations

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated25 June 1923
KeywordsSurvey regulations, Executive Council approval
👩‍💼 Officials

Jellicoe, Governor-General
F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council

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