75

Since the above date triangulation has covered the whole of the Province, excepting those portions situate within the 89th degree of latitude, the western boundary of Hawke’s Bay Province, and the outskirts of the Waitotara, the Wanganui and the Rangitikei Districts.

From those data the geodesical positions of the principal points have been fixed, and as by far the largest portion of the surveys have been executed during the past ten years, the positions of the mountain ranges, rivers, streams, road, and telegraph lines, and a mass of other topographical information can now be accurately mapped.

An important public want would be supplied by the publication of a map such as has just been described. With the exception of a reduction of the existing map to a scale of 14½ miles to an inch, which appears as part of the lithographed map of New Zealand designed by Dr. Hector and Mr. Bowden, and also in that of Mr. Owen, no map of the Province of Wellington is in existence. The maps referred to do not adequately meet existing requirements, and the desideratum could only be supplied by the publication of one such as has been here indicated.

It may fairly be anticipated that a good map of this Province would meet with a ready sale to the public, when it has been found that in Otago 1,000 first impressions of a similar map were speedily sold, and of 3,000 copies subsequently printed the greater portion have been disposed of.

A lithographer being now attached to the Survey Department, the proposed new map could be produced at a very moderate cost, as the sole outlay would be for the requisite stones, together with the charges for printing off the copies.

The Chief Surveyor would further submit to His Honor, that whilst lithographing the map of this Province it would entail comparatively little additional labor to include within it the Provinces of Hawke’s Bay and Taranaki, as far as the 39th degree of latitude. By so doing the value of the map would be considerably enhanced in a public point of view, because it would then comprise the southern half of the North Island, thus affording considerable facilities to the other Provinces situated therein for getting their surveys lithographed at a moderate cost. To effect this, the Chief Surveyor would require to be supplied with authentic tracings of the surveys of those Provinces on a scale of one inch to the mile, and with copies of the triangulation which has recently been performed by the Inspector of Surveys under the Native Lands Act.

In the case of these propositions meeting with the approval of His Honor the Superintendent, and of arrangements being made with the Provinces of Hawke’s Bay and Taranaki, the Chief Surveyor would willingly undertake the whole of the labor attending the publication of the map.

HENRY JACKSON,
Chief Surveyor.

Wellington, April 18, 1872.

ADDENDUM.

The lithographic expenses in preparing such a map would probably amount to £175, viz., the salary of lithographer for six months, and the cost of the stones, £25. The compilation of the map could be performed in the Survey Office without employing extra assistance, and it would occupy about six months in executing, by which period, pending the preparation of further work for the lithographer, his services could be spared for this duty.

The sale price of the map should be twenty-five shillings. The probable addition to the Estimates for surveys on this account would be £25.

HENRY JACKSON,
Chief Surveyor.

ANNUAL REPORT of the Provincial Surgeon, Wellington Hospital.

Wellington, 22nd April, 1872.

By the accompanying statement of the number of patients attended at the Provincial Hospital during the year ending the 31st ultimo, it will be seen that the number of out patients is very large; a few years ago applications for medicine and advice at the