JUNE 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1851

chained to or not, and all intersections of section boundaries with traverses, shall be calculated and tabulated.

Regulation 136 is amended, and shall read—

136. Any plan purporting to be a survey, resurvey, or subdivision of any land shall bear a statutory declaration made by the surveyor who actually made the measurements in the field, in the form given in Appendix N hereof.

Regulation 137 is amended, and shall read—

137. Such plan may be lodged with the District Land Registrar, and sent by him to the Chief Surveyor for approval, and only when so approved shall be deemed to be accurate for all purposes of the Land Transfer Act.

Regulation 138 is amended, and shall read—

138. Surveys within an area covered by a standard traverse shall be connected to the stations of the standard survey. The surveyor shall use the standard blocks as his initial for bearing, and in all cases he shall start his work from one standard block, continue to a second, and also check the bearing on a third block.

Regulation 139 is amended, and shall read—

139. In districts where there is no standard survey, but a triangulation is available, all surveys of sections or allotments shall provide at least two permanent marks which shall be connected with a trig. station or other reliable mark.

Regulation 141 is amended by the addition of the words “(See Appendix R)” at the end thereof.

Regulation 143 is amended, and shall read—

143. The position of all fences, walls, buildings, eaves, ditches, hedges, streams, or other features on or near the boundary must be clearly shown relatively to the actual boundary-line. Where a wall is claimed as a party wall, it must be noted as “claimed as a party wall.” Swamps, terraces, or irregular fences are inadmissible as boundaries, except if so made by the Crown grant, in which case the consent in writing of the adjoining owners should be asked, and these boundaries, with such consent, be reduced to right lines with defined bearings and distances, and the adjoining owners should sign the plan. Any consent in writing so given shall be lodged with the relative survey documents as provided in Regulation 70. Where the reduction to right lines deviates from the title boundary the District Land Registrar should be consulted as to whether he will accept these lines as the original boundary, or will require the alteration to be given effect to by the registration of cross transfers.

Regulation 147 is amended, and shall read—

147. Roads, streets, and public right-of-ways are to be coloured in burnt sienna; railways, red; edge of land to be dealt with green; natural features (when boundaries), sepia; newly created roads or streets, pink. Private right-of-ways, and other differentiations are to be coloured in accord with Plate IV. Where the land forms a part of two or more original sections the boundaries and numbers of such sections shall be shown by a distinguishing colour, and should the boundaries on the ground differ materially from the Crown-grant boundaries, such Crown-grant boundaries shall be shown by dotted black lines.

Regulation 152 is amended, and shall read—

152. In every case where lots of sections or blocks of land outside of a borough or town district are to be sold or advertised for sale as a town, whether public or private, a plan of such town, signed by the owner or his authorized agent, to the sizes and scales given in Appendix G hereto, showing the proposed arrangement of lots and streets, and accompanied by a detailed report, shall be submitted by the surveyor to the Chief Surveyor, and by him referred, with his report, for the approval of the Minister of Lands prior to sale.

Regulation 161 is amended, and shall read—

161. In the case of a subdivision of land as a town by a private owner, present procedure requires that not less than 5 per cent. of the area of the lots shall be reserved for public purposes. On the plan these areas shall have their specific purpose written on each. In cases where the area subdivided is small, the reservation may be wholly or partially dispensed with, with the consent of the Minister of Lands.