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OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
J. L. C. RICHARDSON, Superintendent.
Vol. V.] WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1862. [No. 217.]
SURVEY REPORT.
Dunedin, 12th September, 1862.
To His Honor Major Richardson,
Superintendent of Otago.
SIR,
I HAVE the honor to forward for your information the Annual Return of work executed by the Staff Surveyors of this Department, by which it will appear that 397 square miles have been triangulated, 134,765 acres have been surveyed and marked into rural sections, 2,644 town quarter-acre sections have been laid off, and 41 lineal miles of road survey executed. Besides the above surveys, Geographical data have been observed in various parts of the interior, which will serve as starting points for Reconnaissance and following Surveys; also, 1446 square miles of Reconnaissance Survey have been effected, extending over the Upper Clutha Valleys.
This year having been one of much excitement among all classes, the Department has been carried on under difficult circumstances in regard to keeping the men together: it is therefore highly creditable to the officers that they have by their exertions fully realised the results anticipated in my last year’s report, which were, that 400 square miles of triangulation would be completed, and 120,000 to 150,000 acres of rural sections surveyed.
In lieu of the road surveys proposed several towns have been laid off.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1862, No 217
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🗺️ Annual Survey Report for Otago Province
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey12 September 1862
Survey, Triangulation, Rural Sections, Town Sections, Road Survey, Reconnaissance Survey, Clutha Valleys
- J. L. C. Richardson (Superintendent), Recipient of survey report
- J. L. C. Richardson, Superintendent