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OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
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W. CARGILL, Superintendent.
Vol. III.] THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1859. [No. 91.]
GOVERNMENT SURVEY REPORTS ON THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND.
WITH NOTES UP TO DATE.
REPORT
To THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE WASTE LAND BOARD ON THE RECONNOISSANCE SURVEY OF THE SOUTHERN DISTRICTS OF OTAGO,
executed during the months of January, February, and March, 1857, by J. T. THOMSON, Chief Surveyor.
I LEFT Dunedin on the 5th of January, 1857, and arrived at Invercargill on the 11th of the same month.
The weather proved unpropitious for four days after my arrival at Invercargill, so I could not move from thence till the 15th; but during the interval the necessary steps of cleaning and testing the Instruments, preparing provisions and equipments, were attended to.
SURVEY.
On the 15th I started for New River, with the view of obtaining such preliminary knowledge of the nature of the country as would enable me to decide on the mode of survey to be proceeded with. After viewing this part of the country, and from thence to a considerable extent the districts coming within the limit of operations, I was led to adopt a system of survey hereafter described, which I judged would meet the requirements of the Board and the public, and be executed in so limited a period, that the results would be early at the service of the same.
The object which the Commissioners of the Waste Land Board charged with the administration of the Lands of the Province had in view, being a survey that would enable them to mark off the proposed “Hundreds,” and blocks reserved for sale under the “Land Sales and Leases Ordinance, 1856,” as well as the positions of Pasturage Runs and Public Reserves, all of which measures called for immediate settlement, it appeared evident to me that the requirements of the Board and the public, numerous and urgent as they were, could not be met in a limited period by conforming to the most approved and necessarily tardy systems adopted in Land Survey, viz., Triangulation and Traverse.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1859, No 91
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